kingwood

1. 1.

   handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork

   Broaderwood
2. 2.

   Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood

   Synonymskingwood treeDalbergia cearensis

   Broadertree

   Part ofDalbergia

Other forms of kingwood

plural

kingwoods·

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 kingwood

What does kingwood mean?

kingwood means "handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kingwood?

kingwood has 2 syllables: kin-gwood. The stress falls on "kin".

What is another word for kingwood?

Close synonyms include kingwood tree, Dalbergia cearensis. 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 kingwood a common word?

kingwood 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.