toadflax

Other forms of toadflax

plural

toadflaxes·

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 toadflax

What does toadflax mean?

toadflax means "common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America".

How many syllables are in toadflax?

toadflax has 3 syllables: to-ad-flax. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for toadflax?

Close synonyms include butter-and-eggs, wild snapdragon, devil's flax, Linaria vulgaris. 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 toadflax a common word?

toadflax 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.