poor man's pulse

Questions about poor man's pulse

What is another word for poor man's pulse?

It depends which poor man's pulse you mean. In the sense “twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos”, the synonyms are horse gram, horse grain, Macrotyloma uniflorum, Dolichos biflorus. Across all 1 sense there are 4 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 poor man's pulse?

WordNet records no antonym for poor man's pulse. 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 poor man's pulse 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.

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• Full entry for poor man's pulseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for poor man's pulseWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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