polyunsaturated

1. 1.

   (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds

   Similarunsaturated

Questions about polyunsaturated

What does polyunsaturated mean?

polyunsaturated means "(of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds".

How many syllables are in polyunsaturated?

polyunsaturated has 6 syllables and divides as po-lyun-sa-tu-ra-ted 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 polyunsaturated a common word?

polyunsaturated 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.