pepperwood

Other forms of pepperwood

plural

pepperwoods·

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 pepperwood

What does pepperwood mean?

pepperwood means "Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood".

How many syllables are in pepperwood?

pepperwood has 3 syllables and divides as pep-per-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 pepperwood?

Close synonyms include California laurel, California bay tree, Oregon myrtle, spice tree, sassafras laurel. 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 pepperwood a common word?

pepperwood 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.