hercules'-club

Questions about hercules'-club

What does hercules'-club mean?

hercules'-club means "densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hercules'-club?

hercules'-club has 4 syllables and divides as her-cu-les'--club 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 hercules'-club?

Close synonyms include Hercules'-clubs, Hercules-club, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, American angelica tree, devil's walking stick. 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 hercules'-club a common word?

hercules'-club 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.