pheno-safranine

1. 1.

   a purplish red water-soluble dye used in microscopy

   Broadersafranine

Questions about pheno-safranine

What does pheno-safranine mean?

pheno-safranine means "a purplish red water-soluble dye used in microscopy".

How many syllables are in pheno-safranine?

pheno-safranine has 5 syllables and divides as phe-no--sa-fra-nine 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 pheno-safranine a common word?

pheno-safranine 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.