ageratum
noun
ageratum is a noun meaning “Any member of the genus Ageratum of tropical American herbs, annuals and perennials, from the sunflower family Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae; they…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-G-E-R-A-T-U-M and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ageratum is ageratums.
What does ageratum mean?
noun
- 1
Any member of the genus Ageratum of tropical American herbs, annuals and perennials, from the sunflower family Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae; they are sometimes used in floral displays.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ageratum?
Ageratum has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ageratum
- ageratums plural
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How common is ageratum?
Ageratum appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Ageratum in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any member of the genus Ageratum of tropical American herbs:
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Where does ageratum come from?
From the genus name.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).