Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

obedient plant

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English

Syllables: obe-di-en-t -plant
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A flowering plant in the mint family, Physostegia virginiana, native to eastern North America and known for the way that individual flowers stay in the position they're moved to when pushed to one side or the other.

Inflected Forms

obedient plants (plural)

Synonyms

false dragonhead false dragon head physostegia virginiana

Questions

What does obedient plant mean?: A flowering plant in the mint family, Physostegia virginiana, native to eastern North America and known for the way that individual flowers stay in the position they're moved to when pushed to one side or the other.

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