costmary

Other forms of costmary

plural

costmaries·

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 costmary

What does costmary mean?

costmary means "tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in costmary?

costmary has 3 syllables: cost-ma-ry. The stress falls on "cost".

What is another word for costmary?

Close synonyms include alecost, bible leaf, mint geranium, balsam herb, Tanacetum balsamita. 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 costmary a common word?

costmary 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.