applewood

1. 1.

   wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus

   Broaderfruitwood

Other forms of applewood

plural

applewoods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about applewood

What does applewood mean?

applewood means "wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus".

How many syllables are in applewood?

applewood has 3 syllables: ap-ple-wood. The stress falls on "ap".

Is applewood a common word?

applewood is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.