sanicle

Other forms of sanicle

plural

sanicles·

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 sanicle

What does sanicle mean?

sanicle means "a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers".

How many syllables are in sanicle?

sanicle has 3 syllables and divides as sa-ni-cle 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 sanicle?

Close synonyms include snakeroot. 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 sanicle a common word?

sanicle 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.