peachwood

Questions about peachwood

What does peachwood mean?

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

How many syllables are in peachwood?

peachwood has 3 syllables and divides as pe-ach-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 peachwood?

Close synonyms include brazilwood, peach-wood, 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 peachwood a common word?

peachwood 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.