scammonyroot

Questions about scammonyroot

What is another word for scammonyroot?

It depends which scammonyroot you mean. In the sense “tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato”, the synonyms are wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine, man-of-the-earth, manroot, Ipomoea panurata, Ipomoea fastigiata. 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 scammonyroot?

WordNet records no antonym for scammonyroot. 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 scammonyroot 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 scammonyroot

• Full entry for scammonyrootAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for scammonyrootWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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