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BASKET FLOWER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does basket flower mean?
• BASKET FLOWER (noun)
The noun BASKET FLOWER has 1 sense:
1. annual of southwestern United States cultivated for its purple flower heads and its bracts that resemble small baskets
Familiarity information: BASKET FLOWER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual of southwestern United States cultivated for its purple flower heads and its bracts that resemble small baskets
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
basket flower; Centaurea americana
Hypernyms ("basket flower" is a kind of...):
centaury (any plant of the genus Centaurea)
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