butter-print

Questions about butter-print

What does butter-print mean?

butter-print means "tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States".

How many syllables are in butter-print?

butter-print has 3 syllables and divides as but-ter--print 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-print?

Close synonyms include velvetleaf, velvet-leaf, velvetweed, Indian mallow, China jute. 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-print a common word?

butter-print 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.