betulaceous

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees of the birch family

Questions about betulaceous

What does betulaceous mean?

betulaceous means "of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees of the birch family".

How many syllables are in betulaceous?

betulaceous has 5 syllables and divides as be-tu-la-ce-ous 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 betulaceous a common word?

betulaceous 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.