sarracenia flava

Questions about sarracenia flava

What does sarracenia flava mean?

sarracenia flava means "pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids".

What is another word for sarracenia flava?

Close synonyms include huntsman's horn, huntsman's horns, yellow trumpet, yellow pitcher plant, trumpets. 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 sarracenia flava a common word?

sarracenia flava 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.