colicroot

1. 1.

   any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic

   Synonymscolic rootcrow cornstar grassunicorn root

   Broaderliliaceous plant

   Narrowerague rootyellow colicroot

   Part ofAletris

Other forms of colicroot

plural

colicroots·

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 colicroot

What does colicroot mean?

colicroot means "any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic".

How many syllables are in colicroot?

colicroot has 3 syllables: co-li-croot. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for colicroot?

Close synonyms include colic root, crow corn, star grass, unicorn root. 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 colicroot a common word?

colicroot 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.