zigadene

Other forms of zigadene

plural

zigadenes·

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 zigadene

What does zigadene mean?

zigadene means "any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers; all are poisonous".

How many syllables are in zigadene?

zigadene has 3 syllables and divides as zi-ga-dene 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 zigadene?

Close synonyms include death camas. 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 zigadene a common word?

zigadene 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.