ragwort

Other forms of ragwort

plural

ragworts·

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 ragwort

What does ragwort mean?

ragwort means "widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ragwort?

ragwort has 2 syllables: ra-gwort. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for ragwort?

Close synonyms include tansy ragwort, ragweed, benweed, Senecio jacobaea, butterweed. 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 ragwort a common word?

ragwort 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.