live-and-die

Questions about live-and-die

What does live-and-die mean?

live-and-die means "prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled".

How many syllables are in live-and-die?

live-and-die has 4 syllables and divides as li-ve--and--die 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 live-and-die?

Close synonyms include sensitive plant, touch-me-not, shame plant, humble plant, action plant. 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 live-and-die a common word?

live-and-die 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.