glabrescent

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   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: gla-bre-scent. The stress falls on "gla".

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.