oxtongue

Questions about oxtongue

What does oxtongue mean?

oxtongue means "widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States".

How many syllables are in oxtongue?

oxtongue has 3 syllables and divides as ox-ton-gue 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 oxtongue?

Close synonyms include bristly oxtongue, bitterweed, bugloss, Picris echioides. 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 oxtongue a common word?

oxtongue 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.