caltrop

Other forms of caltrop

plural

caltrops·

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 caltrop

What does caltrop mean?

caltrop means "tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in caltrop?

caltrop has 2 syllables: cal-trop. The stress falls on "cal".

What is another word for caltrop?

Close synonyms include devil's weed, Tribulus terestris, water chestnut, water chestnut plant, star-thistle. 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 caltrop a common word?

caltrop 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.