shagbark

Other forms of shagbark

plural

shagbarks·

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 shagbark

What does shagbark mean?

shagbark means "North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts".

How many syllables are in shagbark?

shagbark has 2 syllables: shag-bark. The stress falls on "shag".

What is another word for shagbark?

Close synonyms include shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory, Carya ovata. 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 shagbark a common word?

shagbark 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.