rosebay willowherb

Questions about rosebay willowherb

What does rosebay willowherb mean?

rosebay willowherb means "tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant".

What is another word for rosebay willowherb?

Close synonyms include fireweed, giant willowherb, wickup, Epilobium angustifolium. 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 rosebay willowherb a common word?

rosebay willowherb 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rosebay willowherb come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.