gumweed

Other forms of gumweed

plural

gumweeds·

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 gumweed

What does gumweed mean?

gumweed means "any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock".

How many syllables are in gumweed?

gumweed has 2 syllables and divides as gum-weed 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 gumweed?

Close synonyms include gum plant, tarweed, rosinweed. 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 gumweed a common word?

gumweed 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.