shawny

Questions about shawny

What does shawny mean?

shawny means "showy perennial herb with white flowers; leaves sometimes used as edible greens in southeastern United States".

How many syllables are in shawny?

shawny has 2 syllables and divides as shaw-ny 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 shawny?

Close synonyms include Virginia waterleaf, Shawnee salad, Indian salad, John's cabbage, Hydrophyllum virginianum. 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 shawny a common word?

shawny 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.