fanweed

Questions about fanweed

What is another word for fanweed?

It depends which fanweed you mean. In the sense “foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America”, the synonyms are field pennycress, French weed, penny grass, stinkweed, mithridate mustard, Thlaspi arvense. Across all 1 sense there are 6 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 fanweed?

WordNet records no antonym for fanweed. 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.

Where do the synonyms for fanweed 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 fanweed

• Full entry for fanweedAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for fanweedWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.