foamflower

Questions about foamflower

What does foamflower mean?

foamflower means "stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant".

How many syllables are in foamflower?

foamflower has 4 syllables and divides as fo-am-flo-wer 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 foamflower?

Close synonyms include coolwart, false miterwort, false mitrewort, Tiarella cordifolia. 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 foamflower a common word?

foamflower 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.