heartrot

1. 1.

   any plant disease in which the central part of a plant rots (especially in trees)

   Broaderplant disease

Other forms of heartrot

plural

heartrots·

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 heartrot

What does heartrot mean?

heartrot means "any plant disease in which the central part of a plant rots (especially in trees)".

How many syllables are in heartrot?

heartrot has 3 syllables: he-ar-trot. The stress falls on "he".

Is heartrot a common word?

heartrot 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.