celandine

Other forms of celandine

plural

celandines·

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 celandine

What does celandine mean?

celandine means "North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in celandine?

celandine has 3 syllables: cel-an-dine. The stress falls on "cel". In IPA it is /ˈsɛlənˌdaɪn/.

What is another word for celandine?

Close synonyms include jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not, Impatiens capensis. 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 celandine a common word?

celandine 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.

What rhymes with celandine?

3 words rhyme with celandine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.