painted cup

Questions about painted cup

What does painted cup mean?

painted cup means "any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts".

What is another word for painted cup?

Close synonyms include Indian paintbrush. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is painted cup a common word?

painted cup is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.