motherwort

1. 1.

   bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers

   SynonymsLeonurus cardiaca

   Broaderherb

   Part ofLeonurus

Other forms of motherwort

plural

motherworts·

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 motherwort

What does motherwort mean?

motherwort means "bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers".

How many syllables are in motherwort?

motherwort has 3 syllables: mo-ther-wort. The stress falls on "mo".

What is another word for motherwort?

Close synonyms include Leonurus cardiaca. 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 motherwort a common word?

motherwort 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.