painted tongue

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   Chilean herb having velvety funnel-shaped yellowish or violet flowers with long tonguelike styles at the corolla throat

   SynonymsSalpiglossis sinuata

   Broadersalpiglossis

Questions about painted tongue

What does painted tongue mean?

painted tongue means "Chilean herb having velvety funnel-shaped yellowish or violet flowers with long tonguelike styles at the corolla throat".

What is another word for painted tongue?

Close synonyms include Salpiglossis sinuata. 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 tongue a common word?

painted tongue 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.