epilithic

1. 1.

   growing on stone

   “epilithic mosses”

Questions about epilithic

What does epilithic mean?

epilithic means "growing on stone".

How many syllables are in epilithic?

epilithic has 4 syllables and divides as e-pi-li-thic 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 epilithic a common word?

epilithic 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.