tail-flower

What does tail-flower mean?

tail-flower means "any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers".

How many syllables are in tail-flower?

tail-flower has 3 syllables: tail--flo-wer. The stress falls on "tail-".

What is another word for tail-flower?

Close synonyms include anthurium, tailflower. 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 tail-flower a common word?

tail-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 tail-flower come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.