rosemary

1. 1.

   widely cultivated for its fragrant grey-green leaves used in cooking and in perfumery

   SynonymsRosmarinus officinalis

   Broaderherb

   Part ofRosmarinus
2. 2.

   extremely pungent leaves used fresh or dried as seasoning for especially meats

   Broaderherb

Other forms of rosemary

plural

rosemaries·

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 rosemary

What does rosemary mean?

rosemary means "widely cultivated for its fragrant grey-green leaves used in cooking and in perfumery". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rosemary?

rosemary has 3 syllables: rose-mar-y. The stress falls on "rose". In IPA it is /ˈɹoʊzˌmɛɹi/.

What is another word for rosemary?

Close synonyms include Rosmarinus officinalis. 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 rosemary a common word?

rosemary is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with rosemary?

6 words rhyme with rosemary. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.