manroot

Other forms of manroot

plural

manroots·

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 manroot

What does manroot mean?

manroot means "tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato".

How many syllables are in manroot?

manroot has 2 syllables and divides as man-root 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 manroot?

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

manroot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.