blueweed

Questions about blueweed

What does blueweed mean?

blueweed means "a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States".

How many syllables are in blueweed?

blueweed has 2 syllables: blue-weed. The stress falls on "blue".

What is another word for blueweed?

Close synonyms include blue devil, blue thistle, viper's bugloss, Echium vulgare. 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 blueweed a common word?

blueweed 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.