snail-flower

Questions about snail-flower

What does snail-flower mean?

snail-flower means "perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus".

How many syllables are in snail-flower?

snail-flower has 3 syllables and divides as snail--flo-wer under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for snail-flower?

Close synonyms include snailflower, snail flower, snail bean, corkscrew flower, Vigna caracalla. 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 snail-flower a common word?

snail-flower 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.