# cf.Field.flag_meanings

`Field.``flag_meanings`

  The flag_meanings CF property.

  Use in conjunction with `flag_values` to provide descriptive words or phrases for each flag value. If multi-word phrases are used to describe the flag values, then the words within a phrase should be connected with underscores. See http://cfconventions.org/latest.html for details.

  Stored as a 1-d numpy string array but may be set as a space delimited string or any array-like object.

  Examples: |

      >>> f.flag_meanings = 'low medium      high'
      >>> f.flag_meanings
      array(['low', 'medium', 'high'],
            dtype='|S6')
      >>> del flag_meanings

      >>> f.flag_meanings = ['left', 'right']
      >>> f.flag_meanings
      array(['left', 'right'],
            dtype='|S5')

      >>> f.flag_meanings = 'ok'
      >>> f.flag_meanings
      array(['ok'],
            dtype='|S2')

      >>> f.setprop('flag_meanings', numpy.array(['a', 'b'])
      >>> f.getprop('flag_meanings')
      array(['a', 'b'],
            dtype='|S1')
      >>> f.delprop('flag_meanings')