leopardbane

Questions about leopardbane

What does leopardbane mean?

leopardbane means "any of several herbs of the genus Doronicum having alternate often clasping stem leaves cultivated for their long stalks of yellow flower heads".

How many syllables are in leopardbane?

leopardbane has 4 syllables and divides as le-o-pard-bane 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 leopardbane?

Close synonyms include leopard's-bane. 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 leopardbane a common word?

leopardbane 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.