ribgrass

Questions about ribgrass

What does ribgrass mean?

ribgrass means "an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions".

How many syllables are in ribgrass?

ribgrass has 2 syllables and divides as rib-grass 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 ribgrass?

Close synonyms include English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, ribwort, ripple-grass, buckthorn. 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 ribgrass a common word?

ribgrass 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.