tailflower

Questions about tailflower

What does tailflower mean?

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

How many syllables are in tailflower?

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

What is another word for tailflower?

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

tailflower 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.