alumroot

Other forms of alumroot

plural

alumroots·

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 alumroot

What does alumroot mean?

alumroot means "any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera".

How many syllables are in alumroot?

alumroot has 3 syllables: a-lum-root. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for alumroot?

Close synonyms include alumbloom. 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 alumroot a common word?

alumroot 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.