woodwaxen

Other forms of woodwaxen

plural

woodwaxens·

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 woodwaxen

What does woodwaxen mean?

woodwaxen means "small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental".

How many syllables are in woodwaxen?

woodwaxen has 3 syllables and divides as woo-dwax-en under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for woodwaxen?

Close synonyms include dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin. 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 woodwaxen a common word?

woodwaxen 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.