rock-loving

1. 1.

   of plants that flourish in a rocky environment

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Questions about rock-loving

What does rock-loving mean?

rock-loving means "of plants that flourish in a rocky environment".

How many syllables are in rock-loving?

rock-loving has 3 syllables and divides as roc-k-lo-ving 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 rock-loving a common word?

rock-loving 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.