lightwood

Questions about lightwood

What does lightwood mean?

lightwood means "tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber".

How many syllables are in lightwood?

lightwood has 2 syllables and divides as ligh-twood 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 lightwood?

Close synonyms include Acacia melanoxylon. 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 lightwood a common word?

lightwood is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.