elkwood

1. 1.

   small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches

   Synonymsumbrella treeumbrella magnoliaelk-woodMagnolia tripetala

   Broadermagnolia

Other forms of elkwood

plural

elkwoods·

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 elkwood

What does elkwood mean?

elkwood means "small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches".

How many syllables are in elkwood?

elkwood has 2 syllables: el-kwood. The stress falls on "el".

What is another word for elkwood?

Close synonyms include umbrella tree, umbrella magnolia, elk-wood, Magnolia tripetala. 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 elkwood a common word?

elkwood 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.