carinal

1. 1.

   relating to or resembling a carina

Questions about carinal

What does carinal mean?

carinal means "relating to or resembling a carina".

How many syllables are in carinal?

carinal has 3 syllables and divides as ca-ri-nal 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 carinal a common word?

carinal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.