chittimwood

Other forms of chittimwood

plural

chittimwoods·

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 chittimwood

What does chittimwood mean?

chittimwood means "shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chittimwood?

chittimwood has 3 syllables: chit-tim-wood. The stress falls on "chit".

What is another word for chittimwood?

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

chittimwood 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.