alkaline-loving

1. 1.

   thriving in a relatively alkaline environment; (especially of plants requiring a pH above 7)

   Antonymsacid-loving

   plant

Questions about alkaline-loving

What does alkaline-loving mean?

alkaline-loving means "thriving in a relatively alkaline environment; (especially of plants requiring a pH above 7)".

How many syllables are in alkaline-loving?

alkaline-loving has 6 syllables and divides as al-ka-li-ne--lo-ving 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 the opposite of alkaline-loving?

The recorded antonyms are acid-loving.

Is alkaline-loving a common word?

alkaline-loving is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.