mail-cheeked

1. 1.

   having bony plates on the sides of the head

   Similararmored

Questions about mail-cheeked

What does mail-cheeked mean?

mail-cheeked means "having bony plates on the sides of the head".

How many syllables are in mail-cheeked?

mail-cheeked has 2 syllables and divides as mail--cheeked 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 mail-cheeked a common word?

mail-cheeked 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.