catgut

Other forms of catgut

plural

catguts·

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 catgut

What does catgut mean?

catgut means "perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in catgut?

catgut has 2 syllables and divides as cat-gut 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 catgut?

Close synonyms include goat's rue, wild sweet pea, Tephrosia virginiana, gut. 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 catgut a common word?

catgut 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.