lords-and-ladies

Questions about lords-and-ladies

What does lords-and-ladies mean?

lords-and-ladies means "common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum".

How many syllables are in lords-and-ladies?

lords-and-ladies has 4 syllables: lord-s-and--la-dies. The stress falls on "s-and-".

What is another word for lords-and-ladies?

Close synonyms include cuckoopint, jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum. 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 lords-and-ladies a common word?

lords-and-ladies 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.