corn mayweed

Questions about corn mayweed

What is another word for corn mayweed?

It depends which corn mayweed you mean. In the sense “ubiquitous European annual weed with white flowers and finely divided leaves naturalized and sometimes cultivated in eastern North America; sometimes included in genus Matricaria”, the synonyms are scentless camomile, scentless false camomile, scentless mayweed, scentless hayweed, Tripleurospermum inodorum, Matricaria inodorum. Across all 2 senses there are 9 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of corn mayweed?

WordNet records no antonym for corn mayweed. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Why are the synonyms for corn mayweed split into groups?

Because corn mayweed carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for corn mayweed come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of corn mayweed

• Full entry for corn mayweedAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for corn mayweedWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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