melilot

Other forms of melilot

plural

melilots·

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 melilot

What does melilot mean?

melilot means "erect annual or biennial plant grown extensively especially for hay and soil improvement".

How many syllables are in melilot?

melilot has 3 syllables: me-li-lot. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for melilot?

Close synonyms include melilotus, sweet clover. 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 melilot a common word?

melilot 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.