red periwinkle

Questions about red periwinkle

What does red periwinkle mean?

red periwinkle means "commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers".

What is another word for red periwinkle?

Close synonyms include periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, Cape periwinkle. 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 periwinkle a common word?

red periwinkle 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.