hay-scented

What does hay-scented mean?

hay-scented means "fern of eastern North America with pale green fronds and an aroma like hay".

How many syllables are in hay-scented?

hay-scented has 3 syllables and divides as hay--scen-ted 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.

What is another word for hay-scented?

Close synonyms include hay-scented fern, scented fern, boulder fern, Dennstaedtia punctilobula. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hay-scented a common word?

hay-scented 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hay-scented come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.