hardheads

Questions about hardheads

What does hardheads mean?

hardheads means "a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized".

How many syllables are in hardheads?

hardheads has 3 syllables and divides as hard-he-ads 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 hardheads?

Close synonyms include lesser knapweed, black knapweed, Centaurea nigra. 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 hardheads a common word?

hardheads 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.