noonflower
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Noon-flower, or Noon-tide, from its closing at midday, and marking the hour of noon, / Tragopogon pratensis, L."
- "... especially the sultriness between noonflower and the four-o'clock's opening"
- "Along the seacoast from San Francisco to Patagonia, the trailing juicy stems and leaves of the noonflower hang curtains of vivid green over the sea cliffs or spread soft mats on the bare earth."
- "A more spectacular plant is the noonflower, which often forms huge swards of mauve flowers, from coastal salt marshes through to inland deserts. This is a more delicate-looking version of the pigface."
- "I find little low creeping things as in the hills: variable groundsel, small-leaved clematis, magenta noonflower that Nan calls pig's-face"
- "Karkalla belongs to the noonflower or pigface family, Aizoaceae."