tinker's root

What does tinker's root mean?

tinker's root means "coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers".

What is another word for tinker's root?

Close synonyms include feverroot, horse gentian, wild coffee, Triostium 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 tinker's root a common word?

tinker's root 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tinker's root come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.