What does pincushion flower mean?

pincushion flower means "Old World annual having fragrant purple to deep crimson flower heads; naturalized in United States".

What is another word for pincushion flower?

Close synonyms include sweet scabious, mournful widow, Scabiosa atropurpurea. 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 pincushion flower a common word?

pincushion flower 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.

Pincushion flower — meaning and 3 synonyms

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1.
Old World annual having fragrant purple to deep crimson flower heads; naturalized in United States
Synonymssweet scabious mournful widow Scabiosa atropurpurea
Broaderscabious

Questions about pincushion flower

What does pincushion flower mean?: pincushion flower means "Old World annual having fragrant purple to deep crimson flower heads; naturalized in United States".
What is another word for pincushion flower?: Close synonyms include sweet scabious, mournful widow, Scabiosa atropurpurea. 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.

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