ram's horn

Questions about ram's horn

What does ram's horn mean?

ram's horn 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 ram's horn?

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 ram's horn a common word?

ram's horn 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.