lizard's-tail

Questions about lizard's-tail

What is another word for lizard's-tail?

It depends which lizard's-tail you mean. In the sense “North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers”, the synonyms are swamp lily, water dragon, Saururus cernuus. Across all 1 sense there are 3 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 lizard's-tail?

WordNet records no antonym for lizard's-tail. 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 lizard's-tail 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 lizard's-tail

• Full entry for lizard's-tailAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for lizard's-tailWhether 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.