yellowwood

1. 1.

   the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees

   Broaderwood
2. 2.

   any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract

   Synonymsyellowwood tree

   Broadertree

   Narrowergymnospermous yellowwoodangiospermous yellowwood

Other forms of yellowwood

plural

yellowwoods·

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 yellowwood

What does yellowwood mean?

yellowwood means "the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yellowwood?

yellowwood has 3 syllables: yel-low-wood. The stress falls on "yel".

What is another word for yellowwood?

Close synonyms include yellowwood tree. 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 yellowwood a common word?

yellowwood 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.