markweed

1. 1.

   climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact

   Synonymspoison ivypoison mercurypoison oakToxicodendron radicansRhus radicans

   Broaderpoisonous plant

   Part ofToxicodendron

Other forms of markweed

plural

markweeds·

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 markweed

What does markweed mean?

markweed means "climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact".

How many syllables are in markweed?

markweed has 2 syllables: mar-kweed. The stress falls on "mar".

What is another word for markweed?

Close synonyms include poison ivy, poison mercury, poison oak, Toxicodendron radicans, Rhus radicans. 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 markweed a common word?

markweed 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.