butter-and-eggs

Questions about butter-and-eggs

What does butter-and-eggs mean?

butter-and-eggs means "common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America".

How many syllables are in butter-and-eggs?

butter-and-eggs has 4 syllables and divides as but-te-r-an-d-eggs 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 butter-and-eggs?

Close synonyms include toadflax, wild snapdragon, devil's flax, Linaria vulgaris. 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 butter-and-eggs a common word?

butter-and-eggs 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.