bugloss

Other forms of bugloss

plural

buglosses·

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 bugloss

What does bugloss mean?

bugloss means "perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bugloss?

bugloss has 2 syllables and divides as bu-gloss 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 bugloss?

Close synonyms include alkanet, Anchusa officinalis, oxtongue, bristly oxtongue, bitterweed. 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 bugloss a common word?

bugloss 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.