mayweed

Questions about mayweed

What does mayweed mean?

mayweed means "widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs".

How many syllables are in mayweed?

mayweed has 2 syllables and divides as may-weed 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 mayweed?

Close synonyms include dog fennel, stinking mayweed, stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula. 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 mayweed a common word?

mayweed 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.