Definitions for Dicentra

Dicentra di·cen·tra

Spelling: [dahy-sen-truh]
IPA: /daɪˈsɛn trə/

Dicentra is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 505 anagrams from letters in Dicentra (acdeinrt).

Definitions for Dicentra

noun

  1. any of several plants belonging to the genus Dicentra, of the fumitory family, having long clusters of drooping flowers, as the Dutchman's-breeches or the bleeding heart.

Origin of Dicentra

1833; New Latin Greek díkentr(os) with two stings or spurs, equivalent to di- di-1 + -kentros, derivative of kéntron a spur, point, sting (derivative of kent

Examples for Dicentra

For larger vases, the dicentra is always pleasing, coming close after the Lily of the Valley.

Now, let me see—Aquilegia, Dianthus barbatus, dicentra spectabilis—gracious!

The arbutus and the dicentra appeared on the 10th, and the coltsfoot—which, however, is an importation—about the same time.

Please look carefully at the enclosed specimen of dicentra thalictriformis, and throw away.

Where was only desolation, after countless days the dicentra hangs out its white flags in truce to the warring elements.

A much more brilliantly coloured member of the same family is the dicentra (Diclytra) spectabilis, so familiar in our gardens.

dicentra spectabilis (Bleeding Heart), red and white; one to two feet; May.

Word Value for Dicentra
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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