buckthorn

Other forms of buckthorn

plural

buckthorns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about buckthorn

What does buckthorn mean?

buckthorn means "a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buckthorn?

buckthorn has 2 syllables: buck-thorn. The stress falls on "buck". In IPA it is /ˈbʌkˌθɔɹn/.

What is another word for buckthorn?

Close synonyms include English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass. 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 buckthorn a common word?

buckthorn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with buckthorn?

2 words rhyme with buckthorn. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.