polianthes tuberosa

1. 1.

   a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers

   Synonymstuberose

   Broaderflower

   Part ofPolianthes

Questions about polianthes tuberosa

What does polianthes tuberosa mean?

polianthes tuberosa means "a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers".

What is another word for polianthes tuberosa?

Close synonyms include tuberose. 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 polianthes tuberosa a common word?

polianthes tuberosa 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.