hourglass-shaped

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   shaped in the form of an hourglass

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Questions about hourglass-shaped

What does hourglass-shaped mean?

hourglass-shaped means "shaped in the form of an hourglass".

How many syllables are in hourglass-shaped?

hourglass-shaped has 3 syllables: hour-glass--shaped. The stress falls on "hour".

Is hourglass-shaped a common word?

hourglass-shaped 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.