birthroot

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 and divides as bir-throot 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 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.