monk's head
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[A] quarter of a goat is going for thirty and forty milreis, a loaf of hard brown sugar for twenty, a cupful of manioc flour for five, an imbuzeiro root or a ‘monk's head’ cactus with edible pulp for one and even two milreis."
- "Across the front flaps of bornais and along the cracked brims of the men's hats, she sewed green appliquéd circles resembling the monk's-head cactus."
Usage
Inflected Forms
monk's heads (plural)