woodbine

Other forms of woodbine

plural

woodbines·

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 woodbine

What does woodbine mean?

woodbine means "common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in woodbine?

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

What is another word for woodbine?

Close synonyms include Virginia creeper, American ivy, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Lonicera periclymenum. 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 woodbine a common word?

woodbine 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.