catclaw

1. 1.

   erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida

   Synonymscat's-clawblack beadPithecellobium unguis-cati

   Broadershrub

   Part ofPithecellobium

Other forms of catclaw

plural

catclaws·

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 catclaw

What does catclaw mean?

catclaw means "erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida".

How many syllables are in catclaw?

catclaw has 2 syllables: cat-claw. The stress falls on "cat".

What is another word for catclaw?

Close synonyms include cat's-claw, black bead, Pithecellobium unguis-cati. 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 catclaw a common word?

catclaw is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.