boxwood

Other forms of boxwood

plural

boxwoods·

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 boxwood

What does boxwood mean?

boxwood means "very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in boxwood?

boxwood has 2 syllables: box-wood. The stress falls on "box". In IPA it is /ˈbɑkˌswʊd/.

What is another word for boxwood?

Close synonyms include Turkish boxwood, box. 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 boxwood a common word?

boxwood 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.

What rhymes with boxwood?

1 word rhymes with boxwood. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.