cottonweed

Other forms of cottonweed

plural

cottonweeds·

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 cottonweed

What does cottonweed mean?

cottonweed means "an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cottonweed?

cottonweed has 3 syllables: cot-ton-weed. The stress falls on "cot".

What is another word for cottonweed?

Close synonyms include pearly everlasting, Anaphalis margaritacea. 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 cottonweed a common word?

cottonweed 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.