lemon-wood

Questions about lemon-wood

What does lemon-wood mean?

lemon-wood means "South African evergreen having hard tough wood".

How many syllables are in lemon-wood?

lemon-wood has 3 syllables and divides as le-mon--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 lemon-wood?

Close synonyms include lemonwood, lemonwood tree, lemon-wood tree, Psychotria capensis. 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 lemon-wood a common word?

lemon-wood 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.