glabrescent

1. 1.

   lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless

   Similarhairless

Questions about glabrescent

What does glabrescent mean?

glabrescent means "lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless".

How many syllables are in glabrescent?

glabrescent has 3 syllables and divides as gla-bre-scent 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 glabrescent a common word?

glabrescent 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.