shittimwood

1. 1.

   deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico

   Synonymsfalse buckthornchittamwoodchittimwoodblack hawBumelia lanuginosa

   Broaderbuckthorn
2. 2.

   shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit

   Synonymssouthern buckthornshittimmock orangeBumelia lycioides

   Broaderbuckthorn
3. 3.

   wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle

   Broaderwood

Other forms of shittimwood

plural

shittimwoods·

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 shittimwood

What does shittimwood mean?

shittimwood means "deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shittimwood?

shittimwood has 3 syllables: shit-tim-wood. The stress falls on "shit".

What is another word for shittimwood?

Close synonyms include false buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa. 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 shittimwood a common word?

shittimwood is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.