fur-bearing

1. 1.

   of animals having fur (especially of commercial quality)

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Questions about fur-bearing

What does fur-bearing mean?

fur-bearing means "of animals having fur (especially of commercial quality)".

How many syllables are in fur-bearing?

fur-bearing has 4 syllables and divides as fur--be-a-ring 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 fur-bearing a common word?

fur-bearing 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.