joewood

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 and divides as jo-e-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 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.