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opossum wood

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English

Syllables
opos-sum -wood
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A silver bell tree (Halesia spp.)

Countable

noun

Wood of the silver bell, close-grained, hard, and pinkish.

Uncountable

noun

Rough possumwood; any member of species Quintinia sieberi of timber trees of Australia.

Countable

Usage

Inflected Forms

opossum woods (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

possumwood

Synonyms

silver-bell tree silverbell tree snowdrop tree halesia carolina halesia tetraptera

Questions

What does opossum wood mean?
A silver bell tree (Halesia spp.)

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