lancewood tree

Questions about lancewood tree

What does lancewood tree mean?

lancewood tree means "tropical American tree; valued for its hard durable wood". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for lancewood tree?

Close synonyms include laurelwood, Calophyllum candidissimum, lancewood, Oxandra lanceolata. 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 lancewood tree a common word?

lancewood tree 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.