aluminiferous

1. 1.

   containing alum or aluminum

   Similarmetallic

Questions about aluminiferous

What does aluminiferous mean?

aluminiferous means "containing alum or aluminum".

How many syllables are in aluminiferous?

aluminiferous has 6 syllables and divides as a-lu-mi-ni-fe-rous 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.

Is aluminiferous a common word?

aluminiferous 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.