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: tho-rough-wort. The stress falls on "tho".

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.