burr-headed

1. 1.

   having a head of straight hair cut very short (hence bristly)

   Similarheaded

Questions about burr-headed

What does burr-headed mean?

burr-headed means "having a head of straight hair cut very short (hence bristly)".

How many syllables are in burr-headed?

burr-headed has 4 syllables and divides as burr--he-a-ded 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 burr-headed a common word?

burr-headed 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.