satinwood

Other forms of satinwood

plural

satinwoods·

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 satinwood

What does satinwood mean?

satinwood means "West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in satinwood?

satinwood has 3 syllables: sa-tin-wood. The stress falls on "sa".

What is another word for satinwood?

Close synonyms include West Indian satinwood, Zanthoxylum flavum, satinwood tree, Chloroxylon swietenia. 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 satinwood a common word?

satinwood 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.