bone-covered

1. 1.

   (of animals) armored with bone

   Similararmored

   animal

Questions about bone-covered

What does bone-covered mean?

bone-covered means "(of animals) armored with bone".

How many syllables are in bone-covered?

bone-covered has 4 syllables and divides as bone--co-ve-red 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 bone-covered a common word?

bone-covered 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.