mayapple

Other forms of mayapple

plural

mayapples·

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 mayapple

What does mayapple mean?

mayapple means "North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit".

How many syllables are in mayapple?

mayapple has 2 syllables and divides as mayap-ple 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 mayapple?

Close synonyms include May apple, wild mandrake, Podophyllum peltatum. 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 mayapple a common word?

mayapple 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.