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meadowfoam

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English

Syllables
mead-ow-foam
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the plants in the genus Limnanthes, flowering annuals native to the western US, especially white meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba), which is grown for the oil in its seeds.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The industrially useful oil produced by Limnanthes alba.

Uncountable

Etymology

From meadow + foam.

Usage

Inflected Forms

meadowfoams (plural)

Questions

What does meadowfoam mean?
Any of the plants in the genus Limnanthes, flowering annuals native to the western US, especially white meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba), which is grown for the oil in its seeds.
Where does meadowfoam come from?
From meadow + foam.

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