skirret

1. 1.

   an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root

   SynonymsSium sisarum

   Broadermarsh plant

   Part ofSium

Other forms of skirret

plural

skirrets·

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 skirret

What does skirret mean?

skirret means "an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root".

How many syllables are in skirret?

skirret has 2 syllables: skir-ret. The stress falls on "skir".

What is another word for skirret?

Close synonyms include Sium sisarum. 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 skirret a common word?

skirret 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.