snow-in-summer

Questions about snow-in-summer

What does snow-in-summer mean?

snow-in-summer means "annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in snow-in-summer?

snow-in-summer has 4 syllables and divides as sno-w-in--sum-mer 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 snow-in-summer?

Close synonyms include snow-on-the-mountain, ghost weed, Euphorbia marginata, love-in-a-mist, Cerastium tomentosum. 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 snow-in-summer a common word?

snow-in-summer 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.