skunkweed

What does skunkweed mean?

skunkweed means "tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell".

How many syllables are in skunkweed?

skunkweed has 2 syllables and divides as skun-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 skunkweed?

Close synonyms include skunk-weed, Polemonium viscosum. 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 skunkweed a common word?

skunkweed 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for skunkweed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.