lamb's-quarters

What does lamb's-quarters mean?

lamb's-quarters means "common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb".

How many syllables are in lamb's-quarters?

lamb's-quarters has 3 syllables and divides as lamb'-s-quar-ters 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 lamb's-quarters?

Close synonyms include pigweed, wild spinach, Chenopodium album. 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 lamb's-quarters a common word?

lamb's-quarters 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lamb's-quarters come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.