heartleaf

Other forms of heartleaf

plural

heartleafs·

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 heartleaf

What does heartleaf mean?

heartleaf means "wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heartleaf?

heartleaf has 4 syllables: he-art-le-af. The stress falls on "art".

What is another word for heartleaf?

Close synonyms include heart-leaf, Asarum shuttleworthii, heart-leaf, Asarum virginicum. 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 heartleaf a common word?

heartleaf 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.