tarwood

Other forms of tarwood

plural

tarwoods·

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 tarwood

What does tarwood mean?

tarwood 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 tarwood?

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

What is another word for tarwood?

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

tarwood 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.