princewood

Other forms of princewood

plural

princewoods·

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 princewood

What does princewood mean?

princewood means "tropical American timber tree". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in princewood?

princewood has 3 syllables and divides as prin-ce-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 princewood?

Close synonyms include Spanish elm, Cordia gerascanthus, Spanish elm, Equador laurel, salmwood. 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 princewood a common word?

princewood 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.