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false buttonweed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
false but-ton-weed
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any plant of species in genus Spermacoce.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From resemblance to buttonweeds (Diodia).

Usage

Inflected Forms

false buttonweeds (plural)

Phrases

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Questions

What does false buttonweed mean?
Any plant of species in genus Spermacoce.
Where does false buttonweed come from?
From resemblance to buttonweeds (Diodia).

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