chittamwood

Other forms of chittamwood

plural

chittamwoods·

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 chittamwood

What does chittamwood mean?

chittamwood means "shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chittamwood?

chittamwood has 3 syllables and divides as chit-tam-wood under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for chittamwood?

Close synonyms include cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, 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 chittamwood a common word?

chittamwood is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.