bony-plated

1. 1.

   covered with bony plates

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Questions about bony-plated

What does bony-plated mean?

bony-plated means "covered with bony plates".

How many syllables are in bony-plated?

bony-plated has 4 syllables and divides as bo-ny--pla-ted 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 bony-plated a common word?

bony-plated 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.