tongue-flower

1. 1.

   orchid having blue to purple flowers with tongue-shaped or strap-shaped protuberances (calli) at the lip base

   Synonymstongueflower

   Broaderorchid

   Part ofGlossodia

Questions about tongue-flower

What does tongue-flower mean?

tongue-flower means "orchid having blue to purple flowers with tongue-shaped or strap-shaped protuberances (calli) at the lip base".

How many syllables are in tongue-flower?

tongue-flower has 4 syllables: ton-gue--flo-wer. The stress falls on "gue-".

What is another word for tongue-flower?

Close synonyms include tongueflower. 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 tongue-flower a common word?

tongue-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.