ruscus
noun
ruscus is a noun meaning “Any of the genus Ruscus of butcher's broom and related plants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-U-S-C-U-S, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ruscus is ruscuses.
What does ruscus mean?
noun
- 1
Any of the genus Ruscus of butcher's broom and related plants.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ruscus
- ruscuses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ruscus?
Ruscus appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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 ruscus come from?
From the genus name.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).