leatherwood

1. 1.

   shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage

   Synonymscyrillawhite titiCyrilla racemiflora

   Broadershrub

   Part ofgenus Cyrilla
2. 2.

   deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers

   Synonymsmoosewoodmoose-woodwicopyropebarkDirca palustris

   Broadershrub

   Part ofDirca

Other forms of leatherwood

plural

leatherwoods·

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 leatherwood

What does leatherwood mean?

leatherwood means "shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in leatherwood?

leatherwood has 3 syllables: leat-her-wood. The stress falls on "leat". In IPA it is /ˈlɛðɚˌwʊd/.

What is another word for leatherwood?

Close synonyms include cyrilla, white titi, Cyrilla racemiflora, moosewood, moose-wood. 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 leatherwood a common word?

leatherwood 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.

What rhymes with leatherwood?

19 words rhyme with leatherwood. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.