snake wood

Questions about snake wood

What does snake wood mean?

snake wood means "tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems".

What is another word for snake wood?

Close synonyms include trumpetwood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree, imbauba, Cecropia peltata. 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 snake wood a common word?

snake wood 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.