gay-feather

Questions about gay-feather

What does gay-feather mean?

gay-feather means "any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads".

How many syllables are in gay-feather?

gay-feather has 4 syllables: ga-y--fea-ther. The stress falls on "y-".

What is another word for gay-feather?

Close synonyms include blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, snakeroot. 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 gay-feather a common word?

gay-feather 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.