hogweed

Questions about hogweed

What does hogweed mean?

hogweed means "tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers".

How many syllables are in hogweed?

hogweed has 2 syllables and divides as ho-gweed 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 hogweed?

Close synonyms include cow parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium. 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 hogweed a common word?

hogweed 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.