capeweed

Questions about capeweed

What does capeweed mean?

capeweed means "European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears".

How many syllables are in capeweed?

capeweed has 3 syllables and divides as ca-pe-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 capeweed?

Close synonyms include cat's-ear, California dandelion, gosmore, Hypochaeris radicata. 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 capeweed a common word?

capeweed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.