peach-wood

What does peach-wood mean?

peach-wood means "tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry".

How many syllables are in peach-wood?

peach-wood has 3 syllables: pe-ach--wood. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for peach-wood?

Close synonyms include brazilwood, peachwood, pernambuco wood, Caesalpinia echinata. 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 peach-wood a common word?

peach-wood 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for peach-wood come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.