locoweed

Other forms of locoweed

plural

locoweeds·

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 locoweed

What does locoweed mean?

locoweed means "any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in locoweed?

locoweed has 3 syllables and divides as lo-co-weed 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 locoweed?

Close synonyms include crazyweed, crazy weed, pot, grass, green goddess. 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 locoweed a common word?

locoweed 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.