cudweed

Other forms of cudweed

plural

cudweeds·

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 cudweed

What does cudweed mean?

cudweed means "any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cudweed?

cudweed has 2 syllables: cu-dweed. The stress falls on "cu".

What is another word for cudweed?

Close synonyms include cotton rose, filago, western mugwort, white sage, prairie sage. 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 cudweed a common word?

cudweed 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.