costusroot

Questions about costusroot

What does costusroot mean?

costusroot means "annual herb of the eastern Himalayas (Kashmir) having purple florets and a fragrant root that yields a volatile oil used in perfumery and for preserving furs".

How many syllables are in costusroot?

costusroot has 3 syllables and divides as co-stus-root 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 costusroot?

Close synonyms include Saussurea costus, Saussurea lappa. 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 costusroot a common word?

costusroot 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.