dyer's-broom

Questions about dyer's-broom

What does dyer's-broom mean?

dyer's-broom means "small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental".

How many syllables are in dyer's-broom?

dyer's-broom has 2 syllables and divides as dyer's--broom 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 dyer's-broom?

Close synonyms include woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, greenweed, whin. 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 dyer's-broom a common word?

dyer's-broom 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.