carbonous

1. 1.

   relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon

   Synonymscarbonaceouscarboniccarboniferous

Questions about carbonous

What does carbonous mean?

carbonous means "relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon".

How many syllables are in carbonous?

carbonous has 3 syllables: car-bo-nous. The stress falls on "car".

What is another word for carbonous?

Close synonyms include carbonaceous, carbonic, carboniferous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carbonous a common word?

carbonous 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.