tickseed

Other forms of tickseed

plural

tickseeds·

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 tickseed

What does tickseed mean?

tickseed means "any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America".

How many syllables are in tickseed?

tickseed has 2 syllables: tick-seed. The stress falls on "tick".

What is another word for tickseed?

Close synonyms include coreopsis, tickweed, tick-weed. 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 tickseed a common word?

tickseed 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.