rock-inhabiting

1. 1.

   of ferns and lichens that grow on rocks

   Similarinhabited

Questions about rock-inhabiting

What does rock-inhabiting mean?

rock-inhabiting means "of ferns and lichens that grow on rocks".

How many syllables are in rock-inhabiting?

rock-inhabiting has 5 syllables: roc-k-in-ha-bi-ting. The stress falls on "ha".

Is rock-inhabiting a common word?

rock-inhabiting 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.