cohosh

Other forms of cohosh

plural

cohoshes·

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 cohosh

What does cohosh mean?

cohosh means "a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries".

How many syllables are in cohosh?

cohosh has 2 syllables and divides as co-hosh 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 cohosh?

Close synonyms include baneberry, herb Christopher. 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 cohosh a common word?

cohosh 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.