tendergreen

Questions about tendergreen

What does tendergreen mean?

tendergreen means "Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage".

How many syllables are in tendergreen?

tendergreen has 3 syllables and divides as ten-der-green 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 tendergreen?

Close synonyms include spinach mustard, Brassica perviridis, Brassica rapa perviridis. 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 tendergreen a common word?

tendergreen 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.