crown-beard

Questions about crown-beard

What does crown-beard mean?

crown-beard means "any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads".

How many syllables are in crown-beard?

crown-beard has 3 syllables and divides as crown--be-ard 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 crown-beard?

Close synonyms include crownbeard, crown beard. 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 crown-beard a common word?

crown-beard 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.