rupturewort

1. 1.

   common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures

   SynonymsHernaria glabra

   Broadergroundcover

   Part ofHernaria

Other forms of rupturewort

plural

ruptureworts·

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 rupturewort

What does rupturewort mean?

rupturewort means "common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures".

How many syllables are in rupturewort?

rupturewort has 4 syllables: rup-tu-re-wort. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for rupturewort?

Close synonyms include Hernaria glabra. 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 rupturewort a common word?

rupturewort 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.