half-hardy

1. 1.

   (of plants) requiring protection from frost

   “half-hardy annuals”

   Similarrobust

   plant

Questions about half-hardy

What does half-hardy mean?

half-hardy means "(of plants) requiring protection from frost".

How many syllables are in half-hardy?

half-hardy has 3 syllables and divides as half--har-dy 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 half-hardy a common word?

half-hardy 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.