matricaire
French, noun/ma.tʁi.kɛʁ/
matricaire is spelled M-A-T-R-I-C-A-I-R-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Matricaire is a French feminine noun meaning “mayweed (of the genus Matricaria)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de plantes de la famille des Astéracées ou une plante voisine de ce genre, plante annuelle à tige…”.
What does matricaire mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemayweed (of the genus Matricaria)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de plantes de la famille des Astéracées ou une plante voisine de ce genre, plante annuelle à tige dressée, aux feuilles alternes, sessiles, épaisses, charnues, très divisées, en lanières aux fleurs, jaunes au centre, blanches à la circonférence, très odorantes, groupées en capitules solitaires au sommet des rameaux. 2. Grande camomille.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of matricaire
- matricaires plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce matricaire?
- /ma.tʁi.kɛʁ/
- \ma.tʁi.kɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is matricaire in French?
matricaire appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).