CROWN-OF-THE-FIELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crown-of-the-field mean? 

• CROWN-OF-THE-FIELD (noun)
  The noun CROWN-OF-THE-FIELD has 1 sense:

1. European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America

  Familiarity information: CROWN-OF-THE-FIELD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROWN-OF-THE-FIELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Agrostemma githago; corn campion; corn cockle; crown-of-the-field

Hypernyms ("crown-of-the-field" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Holonyms ("crown-of-the-field" is a member of...):

Agrostemma; genus Agrostemma (a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles)