virginia spring beauty

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   small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America

   SynonymsClaytonia virginica

   Broaderflower

   Part ofClaytonia

Questions about virginia spring beauty

What does virginia spring beauty mean?

virginia spring beauty means "small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America".

What is another word for virginia spring beauty?

Close synonyms include Claytonia 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 spring beauty a common word?

virginia spring beauty 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.