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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
motherwort is a noun meaning "bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers". It carries one recorded sense.
bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for motherwort come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.