say it: MER-uh-gohld
marigold is a noun meaning "any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers". It is pronounced /ˈmɛɹəˌɡoʊld/ — MER-uh-gohld. It carries one recorded sense.
any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for marigold come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.