postglacial

1. 1.

   relating to or occurring during the time following a glacial period

Questions about postglacial

What does postglacial mean?

postglacial means "relating to or occurring during the time following a glacial period".

How many syllables are in postglacial?

postglacial has 4 syllables and divides as post-gla-ci-al 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 postglacial a common word?

postglacial 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.