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 and divides as blue-weed 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 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.