needlewood

Questions about needlewood

What does needlewood mean?

needlewood means "large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia".

How many syllables are in needlewood?

needlewood has 3 syllables and divides as need-le-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 needlewood?

Close synonyms include needle-wood, needle wood, Hakea leucoptera. 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 needlewood a common word?

needlewood 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.