felwort

1. 1.

   gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas

   Synonymsgentianella amarella

   Broadergentian

   Part ofGentianella

Other forms of felwort

plural

felworts·

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 felwort

What does felwort mean?

felwort means "gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas".

How many syllables are in felwort?

felwort has 2 syllables: fel-wort. The stress falls on "fel".

What is another word for felwort?

Close synonyms include gentianella amarella. 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 felwort a common word?

felwort is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.