belladonna

Other forms of belladonna

plural

belladonnas·

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 belladonna

What does belladonna mean?

belladonna means "perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in belladonna?

belladonna has 4 syllables and divides as bel-la-don-na 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 belladonna?

Close synonyms include belladonna plant, deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna. 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 belladonna a common word?

belladonna 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.