What does summer snowflake mean?

summer snowflake means "common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States".

What is another word for summer snowflake?

Close synonyms include starflower, sleepy dick, Ornithogalum umbellatum. 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 summer snowflake a common word?

summer snowflake 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.

Summer snowflake — meaning and 3 synonyms

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States
Synonymsstarflower sleepy dick Ornithogalum umbellatum
Broaderstar-of-Bethlehem

Questions about summer snowflake

What does summer snowflake mean?: summer snowflake means "common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States".
What is another word for summer snowflake?

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