barrel-shaped

1. 1.

   having the general shape of a barrel

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Questions about barrel-shaped

What does barrel-shaped mean?

barrel-shaped means "having the general shape of a barrel".

How many syllables are in barrel-shaped?

barrel-shaped has 3 syllables: bar-rel--shaped. The stress falls on "bar".

Is barrel-shaped a common word?

barrel-shaped 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.