talinum aurantiacum

Questions about talinum aurantiacum

What does talinum aurantiacum mean?

talinum aurantiacum means "plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots".

What is another word for talinum aurantiacum?

Close synonyms include flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower. 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 talinum aurantiacum a common word?

talinum aurantiacum 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.