mother-of-thousands

What does mother-of-thousands mean?

mother-of-thousands means "eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons".

How many syllables are in mother-of-thousands?

mother-of-thousands has 5 syllables: mo-the-r-of--thou-sands. The stress falls on "r-of-".

What is another word for mother-of-thousands?

Close synonyms include strawberry geranium, strawberry saxifrage, Saxifraga stolonifera, Saxifraga sarmentosam. 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 mother-of-thousands a common word?

mother-of-thousands 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.

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