wooly blue curls

9.9

A small flowering plant with soft hairy leaves and blue or light purple curled flowers that smell nice

noun

Specialized

: rizos azules lanosos

Gardeners in California sometimes plant wooly blue curls to attract bees and butterflies.

Examples

The hillsides in spring are often covered in wooly blue curls, filling the air with their pleasant scent.
She admired the delicate blooms of the wooly blue curls as they waved in the afternoon breeze.
I love the wooly blue curls in my garden.
The wooly blue curls bloom beautifully in spring.
Gardeners in California sometimes plant wooly blue curls to attract bees and butterflies.
The hillsides in spring are often covered in wooly blue curls, filling the air with their pleasant scent.
She admired the delicate blooms of the wooly blue curls as they waved in the afternoon breeze.

Synonyms

Trichostema lanatum

vswooly blue curls

Specialized

9.9

A fragrant shrub with soft woolly leaves and purple flowers native to southern California and Mexico

is the descriptive common name that highlights blue to lavender curled flowers

Surface Forms

wooly blue curls singular

woolly blue curls singular

Morphology

wooly + blue + curl

The phrase is a straightforward descriptive noun phrase: 'wooly' (hairy or covered with fine hairs), 'blue' (color), and 'curls' (curled flower clusters) combine to describe a plant with woolly foliage and blue curled flowers. This compositional, literal naming pattern is cross-linguistically common and easily inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words (even noting the variant spelling 'wooly').

Etymology

Wooly blue curls comes from the plant's look: soft, wooly leaves and small blue flowers that grow in tight curls. So, wooly blue curls simply names the plant with soft leaves and blue curled blooms often found in parts of California and Mexico.