saliferous

1. 1.

   containing or yielding salt

   “saliferous formations”

   “salt domes”

   Similarsalty

Questions about saliferous

What does saliferous mean?

saliferous means "containing or yielding salt".

How many syllables are in saliferous?

saliferous has 4 syllables and divides as sa-li-fe-rous 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 saliferous a common word?

saliferous 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.