nakedwood

1. 1.

   any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood

   Broadertree

   Part ofColubrina
2. 2.

   tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood

   SynonymsEugenia dicrana

   Broaderzebrawood

   Part ofEugenia

Other forms of nakedwood

plural

nakedwoods·

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 nakedwood

What does nakedwood mean?

nakedwood means "any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nakedwood?

nakedwood has 3 syllables: na-ke-dwood. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for nakedwood?

Close synonyms include Eugenia dicrana. 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 nakedwood a common word?

nakedwood 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.