twayblade

Other forms of twayblade

plural

twayblades·

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 twayblade

What does twayblade mean?

twayblade means "orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in twayblade?

twayblade has 2 syllables: tway-blade. The stress falls on "tway".

What is another word for twayblade?

Close synonyms include Listera ovata. 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 twayblade a common word?

twayblade 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.