bugleweed

Other forms of bugleweed

plural

bugleweeds·

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 bugleweed

What does bugleweed mean?

bugleweed means "a mildly narcotic and astringent aromatic herb having small whitish flowers; eastern United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bugleweed?

bugleweed has 3 syllables: bu-gle-weed. The stress falls on "bu".

What is another word for bugleweed?

Close synonyms include Lycopus virginicus, bugle. 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 bugleweed a common word?

bugleweed 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.