PURPLE CHINESE HOUSES

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does purple chinese houses mean? 

• PURPLE CHINESE HOUSES (noun)
  The noun PURPLE CHINESE HOUSES has 1 sense:

1. white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California

  Familiarity information: PURPLE CHINESE HOUSES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURPLE CHINESE HOUSES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

White and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Collinsia bicolor; Collinsia heterophylla; innocense; purple chinese houses

Hypernyms ("purple chinese houses" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("purple chinese houses" is a member of...):

Collinsia; genus Collinsia (genus of hardy annual herbs of western United States)