bow wood

Questions about bow wood

What is another word for bow wood?

It depends which bow wood you mean. In the sense “small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by Native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge”, the synonyms are osage orange, mock orange, Maclura pomifera. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bow wood?

WordNet records no antonym for bow wood. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bow wood come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of bow wood

• Full entry for bow woodAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bow woodWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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