Meaning & use
lisianthus
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Meaning
nouncountable or uncountablespecialist
A garden and cut flower with large, ruffled, bell-shaped blooms in purple, pink, white and other colors.
Grammar: Countable for a plant or stem: three lisianthus; uncountable for the flower type.
The bouquet included white lisianthus and green leaves.
Lisianthus lasts well in a vase if you change the water.
She planted lisianthus along the border for late summer color.
Word forms
| plural | lisianthuses |
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Common combinations
- a bunch of lisianthus
- I bought a bunch of lisianthus at the market.
- purple lisianthus
- Purple lisianthus filled the wedding table.
- lisianthus bouquet
- A lisianthus bouquet makes a lovely gift.
- grow lisianthus
- It takes patience to grow lisianthus from seed.
Synonyms and how they differ
- eustoma
- Eustoma is the botanical genus name, used by growers, while lisianthus is the common florist name.
- prairie gentian
- Prairie gentian is a wild-plant name used in North America, less common among florists.
Word family
- eustoma noun
- the plant group lisianthus belongs to
- gentian noun
- a related plant family with blue flowers
Commonly confused: lisianthus or lisianthus vs. rose?
lisianthus vs lisianthus vs. rose
Lisianthus blooms look like roses but are from a different plant family and have no thorns.
Practice
Which item would a florist most likely describe as lisianthus?
Choose one answer.
Lisianthus is a flower with ruffled blooms. The other options are not flowers.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “lisianthus”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.