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say it: WAWL-flow-ur
wallflower is a noun meaning "any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers". It carries 3 recorded senses.
any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers
perennial of southern Europe having clusters of fragrant flowers of all colors especially yellow and orange; often naturalized on old walls or cliffs; sometimes placed in genus Erysimum
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wallflower come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.