cylindrical-stemmed

1. 1.

   having a cylindrical stem

   Similarcaulescent

Questions about cylindrical-stemmed

What does cylindrical-stemmed mean?

cylindrical-stemmed means "having a cylindrical stem".

How many syllables are in cylindrical-stemmed?

cylindrical-stemmed has 5 syllables and divides as cylin-dri-cal--stem-med 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 cylindrical-stemmed a common word?

cylindrical-stemmed 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.