NOUN
- South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers
How To Use chincherinchee In A Sentence
- A group of chincherinchees makes an attractive display.
- During the war it became an annual habit to travel to a hill just outside the village to pick chincherinchees or snowdrops as they were known.
- The giant chincherinchee is an attractive, easily cultivated garden plant and produces eye-catching, long-lasting flowers that are very suitable for as cut flowers.
- The South Africans know them as ‘tjenkenrientjee’ which is where the odd English name chincherinchee comes from.
- One of the common names of this flower is chincherinchees.
