Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

indian paintbrush

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.62 in modern English

Syllables: in-di-an -paint-brush
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the genus Castilleja of herbaceous perennial plants.

noun

Gaillardia pulchella, a flowering plant of southern US, from Arizona to Florida, and northern Mexico.

noun

Butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa), of eastern North America.

noun

Orange hawkweed (Pilosella aurantiaca, syn. Hieracium aurantiacum)

noun

Hieracium spp. (certain hawkweeds).

Example Sentences

"Webb and Veikko watched across a meadow of larkspur and Indian paintbrush, and behind them a little creek rushed down the hillside."

Inflected Forms

Indian paintbrushes (plural)

Synonyms

paintbrush firewheel Indian blanket sundance painted cup butterfly weed orange milkweed chigger flower chiggerflower pleurisy root tuber root asclepias tuberosa

Questions

What does indian paintbrush mean?: Any member of the genus Castilleja of herbaceous perennial plants.

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