lacustrine

1. 1.

   of or relating to or living near lakes

Questions about lacustrine

What does lacustrine mean?

lacustrine means "of or relating to or living near lakes".

How many syllables are in lacustrine?

lacustrine has 3 syllables and divides as la-cu-strine 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 lacustrine a common word?

lacustrine 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.