silverbush

Other forms of silverbush

plural

silverbushes·

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 silverbush

What does silverbush mean?

silverbush means "silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in silverbush?

silverbush has 3 syllables and divides as sil-ver-bush 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 silverbush?

Close synonyms include Jupiter's beard, silver-bush, Anthyllis barba-jovis, silverberry, silver berry. 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 silverbush a common word?

silverbush 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.