chemoreceptive

1. 1.

   of or relating to chemoreceptors

Questions about chemoreceptive

What does chemoreceptive mean?

chemoreceptive means "of or relating to chemoreceptors".

How many syllables are in chemoreceptive?

chemoreceptive has 5 syllables and divides as che-mo-re-cep-tive 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 chemoreceptive a common word?

chemoreceptive 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.