stone root

Questions about stone root

What does stone root mean?

stone root means "erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States".

What is another word for stone root?

Close synonyms include horse balm, horseweed, stoneroot, stone-root, richweed. 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 stone root a common word?

stone root 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.