swallowwort

Other forms of swallowwort

plural

swallowworts·

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 swallowwort

What does swallowwort mean?

swallowwort means "tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swallowwort?

swallowwort has 3 syllables: swal-low-wort. The stress falls on "swal".

What is another word for swallowwort?

Close synonyms include blood flower, Asclepias curassavica, celandine, greater celandine, swallow wort. 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 swallowwort a common word?

swallowwort 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.