deer's-ear

Questions about deer's-ear

What does deer's-ear mean?

deer's-ear means "any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington".

How many syllables are in deer's-ear?

deer's-ear has 3 syllables and divides as de-er'-s-ear 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 deer's-ear?

Close synonyms include columbo, American columbo, deer's-ears, pyramid plant, American gentian. 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 deer's-ear a common word?

deer's-ear 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.