nutgrass

Questions about nutgrass

What does nutgrass mean?

nutgrass means "a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers".

How many syllables are in nutgrass?

nutgrass has 2 syllables and divides as nut-grass 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 nutgrass?

Close synonyms include nut grass, nutsedge, nut sedge, Cyperus rotundus. 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 nutgrass a common word?

nutgrass 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.