crownbeard

1. 1.

   any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads

   Synonymscrown-beardcrown beard

   Broadercomposite

   Narrowerwingstemcowpen daisygravelweedVirginia crownbeard

   Part ofVerbesina

Other forms of crownbeard

plural

crownbeards·

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 crownbeard

What does crownbeard mean?

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

How many syllables are in crownbeard?

crownbeard has 3 syllables: crown-be-ard. The stress falls on "crown".

What is another word for crownbeard?

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

crownbeard 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.