five-needled

1. 1.

   (of conifers) having five needles

   Similarsimple

Questions about five-needled

What does five-needled mean?

five-needled means "(of conifers) having five needles".

How many syllables are in five-needled?

five-needled has 3 syllables and divides as five--need-led 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 five-needled a common word?

five-needled 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.