salmwood

Other forms of salmwood

plural

salmwoods·

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 salmwood

What does salmwood mean?

salmwood means "large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood".

How many syllables are in salmwood?

salmwood has 2 syllables: salm-wood. The stress falls on "salm".

What is another word for salmwood?

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

salmwood 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.