virginia cowslip

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   smooth erect herb of eastern North America having entire leaves and showy blue flowers that are pink in bud

   SynonymsVirginia bluebellMertensia virginica

   Broaderherb

   Part ofMertensia

Questions about virginia cowslip

What does virginia cowslip mean?

virginia cowslip means "smooth erect herb of eastern North America having entire leaves and showy blue flowers that are pink in bud".

What is another word for virginia cowslip?

Close synonyms include Virginia bluebell, Mertensia virginica. 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 virginia cowslip a common word?

virginia cowslip 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.