ratsbane

Questions about ratsbane

What does ratsbane mean?

ratsbane means "a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer".

How many syllables are in ratsbane?

ratsbane has 2 syllables and divides as rats-bane 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 ratsbane?

Close synonyms include arsenic, arsenic trioxide, arsenous anhydride, arsenous oxide, white arsenic. 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 ratsbane a common word?

ratsbane 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.