cross-pollinating

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of cross-pollination

Questions about cross-pollinating

What does cross-pollinating mean?

cross-pollinating means "of or relating to or characteristic of cross-pollination".

How many syllables are in cross-pollinating?

cross-pollinating has 5 syllables: cros-s-pol-li-na-ting. The stress falls on "li".

Is cross-pollinating a common word?

cross-pollinating 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.