gill-over-the-ground

Questions about gill-over-the-ground

What does gill-over-the-ground mean?

gill-over-the-ground means "trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta".

How many syllables are in gill-over-the-ground?

gill-over-the-ground has 5 syllables and divides as gil-l-o-ver--the--ground 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 gill-over-the-ground?

Close synonyms include ground ivy, alehoof, field balm, runaway robin, Glechoma hederaceae. 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 gill-over-the-ground a common word?

gill-over-the-ground 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.