wheat-grass

Questions about wheat-grass

What does wheat-grass mean?

wheat-grass means "a grass of the genus Agropyron".

How many syllables are in wheat-grass?

wheat-grass has 3 syllables and divides as whe-at--grass 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 wheat-grass?

Close synonyms include wheatgrass. 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 wheat-grass a common word?

wheat-grass 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.