trompillo

Other forms of trompillo

plural

trompilloes·

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 trompillo

What does trompillo mean?

trompillo means "weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America".

How many syllables are in trompillo?

trompillo has 3 syllables: trom-pil-lo. The stress falls on "trom".

What is another word for trompillo?

Close synonyms include white horse nettle, prairie berry, purple nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, silver-leaved nightshade. 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 trompillo a common word?

trompillo is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.