coral-wood

Questions about coral-wood

What does coral-wood mean?

coral-wood means "East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental".

How many syllables are in coral-wood?

coral-wood has 3 syllables and divides as co-ral--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 coral-wood?

Close synonyms include coralwood, red sandalwood, Barbados pride, peacock flower fence, Adenanthera pavonina. 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 coral-wood a common word?

coral-wood 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.