arenicolous

1. 1.

   growing or living or burrowing in sand

   “arenicolous worms”

Questions about arenicolous

What does arenicolous mean?

arenicolous means "growing or living or burrowing in sand".

How many syllables are in arenicolous?

arenicolous has 5 syllables and divides as a-re-ni-co-lous 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 arenicolous a common word?

arenicolous 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.