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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
bentwood is a noun meaning "wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture". It carries one recorded sense.
wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture
“bentwood chairs”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bentwood come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.