laurelwood

Questions about laurelwood

What does laurelwood mean?

laurelwood means "tropical American tree; valued for its hard durable wood".

How many syllables are in laurelwood?

laurelwood has 3 syllables and divides as lau-rel-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 laurelwood?

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

laurelwood 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.