coralwood

Other forms of coralwood

plural

coralwoods·

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 coralwood

What does coralwood mean?

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

How many syllables are in coralwood?

coralwood 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 coralwood?

Close synonyms include coral-wood, 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 coralwood a common word?

coralwood 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.