caliche-topped

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   covered with caliche, a hard calcium-carbonate encrusted soil

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Questions about caliche-topped

What does caliche-topped mean?

caliche-topped means "covered with caliche, a hard calcium-carbonate encrusted soil".

How many syllables are in caliche-topped?

caliche-topped has 4 syllables and divides as cali-che--top-ped 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 caliche-topped a common word?

caliche-topped 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.