lemon grass

Questions about lemon grass

What is another word for lemon grass?

It depends which lemon grass you mean. In the sense “an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines”, the synonyms are lemongrass, lemongrass oil. Across all 2 senses there are 2 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 lemon grass?

WordNet records no antonym for lemon grass. 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 lemon grass split into groups?

Because lemon grass 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 lemon grass 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 lemon grass

• Full entry for lemon grassAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for lemon grassWhether 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.