outward-developing

1. 1.

   away from an axis, as in a flower cluster in which the oldest flowers are in the center, the youngest near the edge

   Similarcentrifugal

   botany

Questions about outward-developing

What does outward-developing mean?

outward-developing means "away from an axis, as in a flower cluster in which the oldest flowers are in the center, the youngest near the edge".

How many syllables are in outward-developing?

outward-developing has 6 syllables and divides as ou-tward--de-ve-lo-ping 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 outward-developing a common word?

outward-developing 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.