marble-wood

Questions about marble-wood

What does marble-wood mean?

marble-wood means "hard marbled wood". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in marble-wood?

marble-wood has 3 syllables: mar-ble--wood. The stress falls on "mar".

What is another word for marble-wood?

Close synonyms include marblewood, marblewood, Andaman marble, Diospyros kurzii. 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 marble-wood a common word?

marble-wood 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.