moosewood

Other forms of moosewood

plural

moosewoods·

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 moosewood

What does moosewood mean?

moosewood means "maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in moosewood?

moosewood has 3 syllables: moo-se-wood. The stress falls on "moo".

What is another word for moosewood?

Close synonyms include moose-wood, striped maple, striped dogwood, goosefoot maple, Acer pennsylvanicum. 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 moosewood a common word?

moosewood 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.