Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sagewort

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sage-wort
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a number of perennial herbs in the genus Artemisia which have the aromatic gray or silver foliage of the sagebrushes, but are not shrubby enough to be termed brush.

Uncountable

Etymology

From sage + wort.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

sageworts (plural)

Questions

What does sagewort mean?: Any of a number of perennial herbs in the genus Artemisia which have the aromatic gray or silver foliage of the sagebrushes, but are not shrubby enough to be termed brush.
Where does sagewort come from?: From sage + wort.

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