joewood

1. 1.

   West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood

   SynonymsbarbascoJacquinia keyensis

   Broadershrub

   Part ofJacquinia

Other forms of joewood

plural

joewoods·

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 joewood

What does joewood mean?

joewood means "West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood".

How many syllables are in joewood?

joewood has 3 syllables: jo-e-wood. The stress falls on "jo".

What is another word for joewood?

Close synonyms include barbasco, Jacquinia keyensis. 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 joewood a common word?

joewood 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.