Definitions for cardinal-flower

cardinal-flower cardinal flower

Cardinal-Flower is a 15 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 1874 anagrams from letters in cardinal-flower (-aacdefillnorrw).

Definitions for cardinal-flower

noun

  1. a North American plant, Lobelia cardinalis, with showy red tubular flowers in an elongated cluster.

Origin of cardinal-flower

An Americanism dating back to 1620-30; so called from its color

Examples for cardinal-flower

The cardinal flower is the only flower more gaudy in red than this bee balm.

Just one cardinal flower–that is all–under a shaft of sunlight in the woods.

It is a splendid show of brilliant scarlet, the color of the cardinal flower and surpasses it in mass and profusion.

Yet in color it is as rich an orange as the petal of the cardinal flower is a rich scarlet.

Word Value for cardinal-flower
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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