stave wood

Questions about stave wood

What does stave wood mean?

stave wood means "large tree of Australasia".

What is another word for stave wood?

Close synonyms include red beech, brown oak, booyong, crow's foot, silky elm. 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 stave wood a common word?

stave 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.