thoroughwort

Questions about thoroughwort

What does thoroughwort mean?

thoroughwort means "perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine".

How many syllables are in thoroughwort?

thoroughwort has 3 syllables and divides as tho-rough-wort 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 thoroughwort?

Close synonyms include boneset, agueweed, Eupatorium perfoliatum. 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 thoroughwort a common word?

thoroughwort 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.