moorwort

What does moorwort mean?

moorwort means "wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States".

How many syllables are in moorwort?

moorwort has 2 syllables and divides as moor-wort 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 moorwort?

Close synonyms include bog rosemary, Andromeda glaucophylla. 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 moorwort a common word?

moorwort 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for moorwort come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.