starfish flower

What does starfish flower mean?

starfish flower means "any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers".

What is another word for starfish flower?

Close synonyms include stapelia, carrion flower. 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 starfish flower a common word?

starfish 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for starfish flower come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.