lemon grass

Questions about lemon grass

What does lemon grass mean?

lemon grass means "an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for lemon grass?

Close synonyms include lemongrass, lemongrass oil, lemongrass. 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 lemon grass a common word?

lemon grass is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.