earthtongue

Questions about earthtongue

What does earthtongue mean?

earthtongue means "any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum".

How many syllables are in earthtongue?

earthtongue has 4 syllables: e-arth-ton-gue. The stress falls on "arth".

What is another word for earthtongue?

Close synonyms include earth-tongue. 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 earthtongue a common word?

earthtongue 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.