bearwood

1. 1.

   shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada

   Synonymscascara buckthornbearberrychittamwoodchittimwoodRhamnus purshianus

   Broaderbuckthorn

   Partscascara

Other forms of bearwood

plural

bearwoods·

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 bearwood

What does bearwood mean?

bearwood means "shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada".

How many syllables are in bearwood?

bearwood has 3 syllables: be-ar-wood. The stress falls on "be".

What is another word for bearwood?

Close synonyms include cascara buckthorn, bearberry, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bearwood a common word?

bearwood 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.