stanleya pinnata

1. 1.

   perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome

   Synonymsdesert plumeprince's-plumeCleome pinnata

   Broadersubshrub

   Part ofStanleya

Questions about stanleya pinnata

What does stanleya pinnata mean?

stanleya pinnata means "perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome".

What is another word for stanleya pinnata?

Close synonyms include desert plume, prince's-plume, Cleome pinnata. 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 stanleya pinnata a common word?

stanleya pinnata 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.