rose periwinkle

Questions about rose periwinkle

What does rose periwinkle mean?

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

What is another word for rose periwinkle?

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

rose 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.