helmetflower English

Meaning helmetflower meaning

What does helmetflower mean?

helmetflower

— noun any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process

— noun (= skullcap) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised

— noun (= monkshood) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite

Synonyms helmetflower synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as helmetflower?

helmetflower English » English

skullcap

helmet flower

monkshood

helmet orchid

Aconitum napellus

aconite

Coryanthes