camphorweed

Questions about camphorweed

What does camphorweed mean?

camphorweed means "aromatic plant of western United States".

How many syllables are in camphorweed?

camphorweed has 3 syllables and divides as cam-phor-weed 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 camphorweed?

Close synonyms include turpentine camphor weed, vinegarweed, Trichostema lanceolatum. 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 camphorweed a common word?

camphorweed 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.