horseweed

Other forms of horseweed

plural

horseweeds·

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 horseweed

What does horseweed mean?

horseweed means "erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in horseweed?

horseweed has 3 syllables: hor-se-weed. The stress falls on "hor".

What is another word for horseweed?

Close synonyms include horse balm, stoneroot, stone-root, richweed, stone root. 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 horseweed a common word?

horseweed 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.