birthroot

1. 1.

   trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth

   Synonymspurple trilliumred trilliumTrillium erectum

   Broadertrillium

Other forms of birthroot

plural

birthroots·

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 birthroot

What does birthroot mean?

birthroot means "trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth".

How many syllables are in birthroot?

birthroot has 2 syllables: bir-throot. The stress falls on "bir".

What is another word for birthroot?

Close synonyms include purple trillium, red trillium, Trillium erectum. 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 birthroot a common word?

birthroot 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.