lemongrass

Other forms of lemongrass

plural

lemongrasses·

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 lemongrass

What does lemongrass mean?

lemongrass 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.

How many syllables are in lemongrass?

lemongrass has 3 syllables: le-mon-grass. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for lemongrass?

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

lemongrass 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.