man-of-the-earth

Questions about man-of-the-earth

What does man-of-the-earth mean?

man-of-the-earth means "a morning glory with long roots of western United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in man-of-the-earth?

man-of-the-earth has 4 syllables and divides as ma-n-of--the--earth 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 man-of-the-earth?

Close synonyms include Ipomoea leptophylla, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine, manroot, scammonyroot. 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 man-of-the-earth a common word?

man-of-the-earth 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.