carnassial

1. 1.

   (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh

   “the carnassial teeth of carnivores”

   Similarsharp

Questions about carnassial

What does carnassial mean?

carnassial means "(of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh".

How many syllables are in carnassial?

carnassial has 4 syllables and divides as car-nas-si-al 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 carnassial a common word?

carnassial 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.