hypericum
noun
hypericum is a noun meaning “Any of many flowering plants of the genus Hypericum, St. John's worts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-I-C-U-M, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypericum is hypericums.
What does hypericum mean?
noun
- 1
Any of many flowering plants of the genus Hypericum, St. John's worts.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hypericum
- hypericums plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypericum?
Hypericum appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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 hypericum come from?
From the genus name, translingual Hypericum, itself from Latin hypericum, from Ancient Greek ὑπερικόν (huperikón), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + ἐρείκη (ereíkē, “heath”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).