butyraceous

1. 1.

   having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter

Questions about butyraceous

What does butyraceous mean?

butyraceous means "having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter".

How many syllables are in butyraceous?

butyraceous has 5 syllables and divides as bu-ty-ra-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 butyraceous a common word?

butyraceous 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.