birthwort

Questions about birthwort

What does birthwort mean?

birthwort means "creeping plant having curving flowers thought to resemble fetuses; native to Europe; naturalized Great Britain and eastern North America".

How many syllables are in birthwort?

birthwort has 2 syllables and divides as birth-wort 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 birthwort?

Close synonyms include Aristolochia clematitis. 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 birthwort a common word?

birthwort 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.