blowball

Questions about blowball

What does blowball mean?

blowball means "any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls".

How many syllables are in blowball?

blowball has 2 syllables and divides as blow-ball 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 blowball?

Close synonyms include dandelion. 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 blowball a common word?

blowball 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.