pleurisy root

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   erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers

   Synonymsbutterfly weedorange milkweedchigger flowerchiggerflowertuber rootIndian paintbrushAsclepias tuberosa

   Broadermilkweed

Questions about pleurisy root

What does pleurisy root mean?

pleurisy root means "erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers".

What is another word for pleurisy root?

Close synonyms include butterfly weed, orange milkweed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, tuber root. 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 pleurisy root a common word?

pleurisy root 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.