st andrews's cross

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   shrubby plant having yellow to apricot flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; southeastern United States: New York to Texas

   SynonymsHypericum crux andrae

   BroaderSt John's wort

Questions about st andrews's cross

What does st andrews's cross mean?

st andrews's cross means "shrubby plant having yellow to apricot flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; southeastern United States: New York to Texas".

What is another word for st andrews's cross?

Close synonyms include Hypericum crux andrae. 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 st andrews's cross a common word?

st andrews's cross 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.