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".

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.