orrisroot

1. 1.

   fragrant rootstock of various irises especially Florentine iris; used in perfumes and medicines

   Synonymsorris

   Broaderroot

   Part ofFlorentine iris

Other forms of orrisroot

plural

orrisroots·

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 orrisroot

What does orrisroot mean?

orrisroot means "fragrant rootstock of various irises especially Florentine iris; used in perfumes and medicines".

How many syllables are in orrisroot?

orrisroot has 3 syllables: or-ris-root. The stress falls on "or".

What is another word for orrisroot?

Close synonyms include orris. 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 orrisroot a common word?

orrisroot 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.