starfish flower

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsstapeliacarrion flower

   Broaderherb

   NarrowerStapelias asterias

   Part ofgenus Stapelia

Questions about 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.