ripple-grass

1. 1.

   an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

   SynonymsEnglish plantainnarrow-leaved plantainribgrassribwortbuckthornPlantago lanceolata

   Broaderplantain

Questions about ripple-grass

What does ripple-grass mean?

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

How many syllables are in ripple-grass?

ripple-grass has 3 syllables: rip-ple--grass. The stress falls on "rip".

What is another word for ripple-grass?

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

ripple-grass 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.