Word.ws English Dictionary

tigerwood

tigerwood noun: a South American tree also known as goncalo alves, producing a hardwood, with contrasting stripes, Astronium graveolens, Astronium fraxinifolium and possibly other related species.

Noun

tigerwood (uncountable)

  1. A South American tree also known as goncalo alves, producing a hardwood, with contrasting stripes, Astronium graveolens, Astronium fraxinifolium and possibly other related species.
  2. Lovoa trichilioides, an African tree.
    Synonyms:
    African walnut

Synonyms of tigerwood

Origin of tigerwood

From tiger + wood.

Questions about tigerwood

What does tigerwood mean?
Tigerwood means a South American tree also known as goncalo alves, producing a hardwood, with contrasting stripes, Astronium graveolens, Astronium fraxinifolium and possibly other related species.
What part of speech is tigerwood?
Tigerwood is a noun.

Words near tigerwood in the dictionary

  1. tigertails
  2. Tigertown
  3. Tigerts
  4. Tigerville
  5. tigerware
  6. tigerwood
  7. tigery
  8. tiges
  9. tigged
  10. Tigger
  11. Tiggerish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tigerwood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tigerwood.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tigerwood. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.