oil-bearing

1. 1.

   containing oil

   “oil-bearing shale”

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Questions about oil-bearing

What does oil-bearing mean?

oil-bearing means "containing oil".

How many syllables are in oil-bearing?

oil-bearing has 4 syllables and divides as o-il--bea-ring 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 oil-bearing a common word?

oil-bearing 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.