tar-wood

Questions about tar-wood

What does tar-wood mean?

tar-wood means "New Zealand shrub". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tar-wood?

tar-wood has 2 syllables: tar--wood. The stress falls on "tar-".

What is another word for tar-wood?

Close synonyms include tarwood, New Zealand mountain pine, Halocarpus bidwilli, Dacrydium bidwilli, tarwood. 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 tar-wood a common word?

tar-wood is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.