oilseed

Questions about oilseed

What does oilseed mean?

oilseed means "any of several seeds that yield oil".

How many syllables are in oilseed?

oilseed has 2 syllables: oil-seed. The stress falls on "oil". In IPA it is /ˈɔɪlˌsid/.

What is another word for oilseed?

Close synonyms include oil-rich seed. 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 oilseed a common word?

oilseed 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.

What rhymes with oilseed?

19 words rhyme with oilseed. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.