valerian

1. 1.

   a plant of the genus Valeriana having lobed or dissected leaves and cymose white or pink flowers

   Broaderflower

   Narrowercommon valerian

   Part ofValeriana

Other forms of valerian

plural

valerians·

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 valerian

What does valerian mean?

valerian means "a plant of the genus Valeriana having lobed or dissected leaves and cymose white or pink flowers".

How many syllables are in valerian?

valerian has 4 syllables: va-ler-i-an. The stress falls on "ler". In IPA it is /vəˈlɪɹiən/.

Is valerian a common word?

valerian 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.

What rhymes with valerian?

1 word rhymes with valerian. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.