alkanet

What does alkanet mean?

alkanet means "perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers".

How many syllables are in alkanet?

alkanet has 3 syllables and divides as al-ka-net under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for alkanet?

Close synonyms include bugloss, Anchusa officinalis. 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 alkanet a common word?

alkanet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for alkanet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.