tall cupflower

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   shrubby Chilean herb having bluish-white tubular flowers used as an ornamental

   SynonymsNierembergia frutescens

   Broadercupflower

   Part ofgenus Nierembergia

Questions about tall cupflower

What does tall cupflower mean?

tall cupflower means "shrubby Chilean herb having bluish-white tubular flowers used as an ornamental".

What is another word for tall cupflower?

Close synonyms include Nierembergia frutescens. 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 tall cupflower a common word?

tall cupflower 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.