jewelweed

Other forms of jewelweed

plural

jewelweeds·

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 jewelweed

What does jewelweed mean?

jewelweed means "North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil".

How many syllables are in jewelweed?

jewelweed has 3 syllables and divides as je-wel-weed 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 jewelweed?

Close synonyms include lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, touch-me-not, Impatiens capensis. 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 jewelweed a common word?

jewelweed 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.