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eryngium

noun

eryngium is a noun meaning “Any of the genus Eryngium of umbelliferous plants resembling thistles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-R-Y-N-G-I-U-M, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of eryngium is eryngiums.

What does eryngium mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any of the genus Eryngium of umbelliferous plants resembling thistles.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of eryngium

  • eryngiums plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is eryngium?

Eryngium appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).

Where does eryngium come from?

From the genus name.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).