red helleborine

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   orchid of Mediterranean and Asia having a lax spike of bright rose-pink flowers

   SynonymsCephalanthera rubra

   Broaderhelleborine

   Part ofCephalanthera

Questions about red helleborine

What does red helleborine mean?

red helleborine means "orchid of Mediterranean and Asia having a lax spike of bright rose-pink flowers".

What is another word for red helleborine?

Close synonyms include Cephalanthera rubra. 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 red helleborine a common word?

red helleborine 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.