whorlywort

Other forms of whorlywort

plural

whorlyworts·

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 whorlywort

What does whorlywort mean?

whorlywort means "a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America".

How many syllables are in whorlywort?

whorlywort has 3 syllables: whor-ly-wort. The stress falls on "whor".

What is another word for whorlywort?

Close synonyms include Culver's root, Culvers root, Culver's physic, Culvers physic, Veronicastrum virginicum. 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 whorlywort a common word?

whorlywort 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.