switch-ivy

What does switch-ivy mean?

switch-ivy means "fast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white flowers".

How many syllables are in switch-ivy?

switch-ivy has 3 syllables and divides as swit-ch-i-vy 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 switch-ivy?

Close synonyms include dog laurel, dog hobble, Leucothoe fontanesiana, Leucothoe editorum. 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 switch-ivy a common word?

switch-ivy 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 switch-ivy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.