tailwort

1. 1.

   hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach

   SynonymsborageBorago officinalis

   Broaderherb

   Part ofBorago

   Partsborage

Other forms of tailwort

plural

tailworts·

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 tailwort

What does tailwort mean?

tailwort means "hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach".

How many syllables are in tailwort?

tailwort has 2 syllables: tail-wort. The stress falls on "tail".

What is another word for tailwort?

Close synonyms include borage, Borago officinalis. 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 tailwort a common word?

tailwort is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.