dyewood

1. 1.

   any wood from which dye is obtained

   Broaderwood

Other forms of dyewood

plural

dyewoods·

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 dyewood

What does dyewood mean?

dyewood means "any wood from which dye is obtained".

How many syllables are in dyewood?

dyewood has 2 syllables: dye-wood. The stress falls on "dye".

Is dyewood a common word?

dyewood 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.