TWINFLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twinflower mean? 

• TWINFLOWER (noun)
  The noun TWINFLOWER has 1 sense:

1. creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs

  Familiarity information: TWINFLOWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWINFLOWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Linnaea borealis; twinflower

Hypernyms ("twinflower" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "twinflower"):

American twinflower; Linnaea borealis americana (similar to the twinflower of northern Europe and Asia)

Holonyms ("twinflower" is a member of...):

genus Linnaea; Linnaea (one species: twinflower)