medick

Other forms of medick

plural

medicks·

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 medick

What does medick mean?

medick means "any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves".

How many syllables are in medick?

medick has 2 syllables: me-dick. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for medick?

Close synonyms include medic, trefoil. 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 medick a common word?

medick is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.