velvetweed

Other forms of velvetweed

plural

velvetweeds·

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 velvetweed

What does velvetweed mean?

velvetweed means "tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States".

How many syllables are in velvetweed?

velvetweed has 3 syllables and divides as vel-ve-tweed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for velvetweed?

Close synonyms include velvetleaf, velvet-leaf, Indian mallow, butter-print, China jute. 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 velvetweed a common word?

velvetweed 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.