crinkle-root

What does crinkle-root mean?

crinkle-root means "North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots".

How many syllables are in crinkle-root?

crinkle-root has 3 syllables and divides as crin-kle--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 crinkle-root?

Close synonyms include crinkleroot, crinkle root, pepper root, toothwort, Cardamine diphylla. 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 crinkle-root a common word?

crinkle-root 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for crinkle-root come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.