beetleweed

Other forms of beetleweed

plural

beetleweeds·

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 beetleweed

What does beetleweed mean?

beetleweed means "tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall".

How many syllables are in beetleweed?

beetleweed has 3 syllables: beet-le-weed. The stress falls on "beet".

What is another word for beetleweed?

Close synonyms include galax, galaxy, wandflower, coltsfoot, Galax urceolata. 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 beetleweed a common word?

beetleweed 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.