eelgrass

Other forms of eelgrass

plural

eelgrasses·

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 eelgrass

What does eelgrass mean?

eelgrass means "submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eelgrass?

eelgrass has 2 syllables: eel-grass. The stress falls on "eel". In IPA it is /ˈilˌɡɹæs/.

What is another word for eelgrass?

Close synonyms include grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina, tape grass, wild celery. 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 eelgrass a common word?

eelgrass 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.

What rhymes with eelgrass?

4 words rhyme with eelgrass. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.