asafoetida

1. 1.

   the brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic

   Synonymsasafetida

   Broadernatural resin

Other forms of asafoetida

plural

asafoetidas·

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 asafoetida

What does asafoetida mean?

asafoetida means "the brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic".

How many syllables are in asafoetida?

asafoetida has 6 syllables: a-sa-fo-e-ti-da. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for asafoetida?

Close synonyms include asafetida. 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 asafoetida a common word?

asafoetida 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.