late-ripening

1. 1.

   of plants that ripen in the fall

   Similarautumnal

Questions about late-ripening

What does late-ripening mean?

late-ripening means "of plants that ripen in the fall".

How many syllables are in late-ripening?

late-ripening has 5 syllables and divides as la-te--ri-pe-ning 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 late-ripening a common word?

late-ripening 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.