michaelmas daisy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of several species and hybrids of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, particularly in the genera Aster or Symphyotrichum; a flower of any such plant.
Example Sentences
- "He stood across in the other garden, beside a bush of pale Michaelmas daisies, watching the last bees crawl into the hive."
- "There was a lavatory at the end of the garden beyond a scraggy clump of Michaelmas daisies that never looked well in themselves, always sere, never blooming, the perennial ghosts of themselves, as if ill-nourished by an exhausted soil."
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Aster amellus
Frequently Paired Words
Aster amellus