vinca minor

1. 1.

   widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers

   Synonymsmyrtle

   Broaderperiwinkle

Questions about vinca minor

What does vinca minor mean?

vinca minor means "widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers".

What is another word for vinca minor?

Close synonyms include myrtle. 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 vinca minor a common word?

vinca minor 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.