agueweed

Other forms of agueweed

plural

agueweeds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about agueweed

What does agueweed mean?

agueweed means "gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in agueweed?

agueweed has 3 syllables: a-gue-weed. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for agueweed?

Close synonyms include ague weed, five-flowered gentian, stiff gentian, Gentianella quinquefolia, Gentiana quinquefolia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is agueweed a common word?

agueweed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.