camphoraceous

1. 1.

   being or having the properties of camphor

   “camphoraceous odor”

Questions about camphoraceous

What does camphoraceous mean?

camphoraceous means "being or having the properties of camphor".

How many syllables are in camphoraceous?

camphoraceous has 5 syllables and divides as cam-pho-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 camphoraceous a common word?

camphoraceous 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.