purple-fringed orchis

Questions about purple-fringed orchis

What does purple-fringed orchis mean?

purple-fringed orchis means "North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for purple-fringed orchis?

Close synonyms include purple-fringed orchid, Habenaria psycodes, purple-fringed orchid, Habenaria fimbriata. 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 purple-fringed orchis a common word?

purple-fringed orchis 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.