mouse-eared

1. 1.

   having ears like a mouse's

   Similareared

Questions about mouse-eared

What does mouse-eared mean?

mouse-eared means "having ears like a mouse's".

How many syllables are in mouse-eared?

mouse-eared has 3 syllables and divides as mou-se-ea-red 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 mouse-eared a common word?

mouse-eared 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.