gromwell

1. 1.

   European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands

   SynonymsLithospermum officinale

   Broaderherb

   Part ofLithospermum

Other forms of gromwell

plural

gromwells·

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 gromwell

What does gromwell mean?

gromwell means "European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands".

How many syllables are in gromwell?

gromwell has 2 syllables: grom-well. The stress falls on "grom".

What is another word for gromwell?

Close synonyms include Lithospermum officinale. 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 gromwell a common word?

gromwell 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.