proboscidea louisianica

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   annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak

   Synonymscommon unicorn plantdevil's clawcommon devil's clawelephant-tuskproboscis flowerram's horn

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   Part ofProboscidea

Questions about proboscidea louisianica

What does proboscidea louisianica mean?

proboscidea louisianica means "annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak".

What is another word for proboscidea louisianica?

Close synonyms include common unicorn plant, devil's claw, common devil's claw, elephant-tusk, proboscis flower. 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 proboscidea louisianica a common word?

proboscidea louisianica 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.