gopherwood

1. 1.

   small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye

   SynonymsKentucky yellowwoodCladrastis luteaCladrastis kentukea

   Broaderangiospermous yellowwood

   Part ofCladrastis

Other forms of gopherwood

plural

gopherwoods·

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 gopherwood

What does gopherwood mean?

gopherwood means "small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye".

How many syllables are in gopherwood?

gopherwood has 3 syllables: go-pher-wood. The stress falls on "go".

What is another word for gopherwood?

Close synonyms include Kentucky yellowwood, Cladrastis lutea, Cladrastis kentukea. 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 gopherwood a common word?

gopherwood 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.