palmately-lobed

1. 1.

   having lobes radiating from a central point

   Similarmultilateral

Questions about palmately-lobed

What does palmately-lobed mean?

palmately-lobed means "having lobes radiating from a central point".

How many syllables are in palmately-lobed?

palmately-lobed has 5 syllables and divides as pal-mate-ly--lo-bed 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 palmately-lobed a common word?

palmately-lobed 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.