silkweed

Other forms of silkweed

plural

silkweeds·

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 silkweed

What does silkweed mean?

silkweed means "any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts".

How many syllables are in silkweed?

silkweed has 2 syllables and divides as sil-kweed 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 silkweed?

Close synonyms include milkweed. 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 silkweed a common word?

silkweed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.