wingstem

Questions about wingstem

What does wingstem mean?

wingstem means "perennial herb with showy yellow flowers; the eastern United States".

How many syllables are in wingstem?

wingstem has 2 syllables and divides as wing-stem 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 wingstem?

Close synonyms include golden ironweed, yellow ironweed, golden honey plant, Verbesina alternifolia, Actinomeris alternifolia. 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 wingstem a common word?

wingstem 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.