sulfur paintbrush

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   plant of moist highland meadows having ragged clusters of pale yellow flowers

   SynonymsCastilleja sulphurea

   BroaderIndian paintbrush

Questions about sulfur paintbrush

What does sulfur paintbrush mean?

sulfur paintbrush means "plant of moist highland meadows having ragged clusters of pale yellow flowers".

What is another word for sulfur paintbrush?

Close synonyms include Castilleja sulphurea. 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 sulfur paintbrush a common word?

sulfur paintbrush 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.