saxicoline

1. 1.

   growing on or living among rocks

   Synonymssaxicoloussaxatile

Questions about saxicoline

What does saxicoline mean?

saxicoline means "growing on or living among rocks".

How many syllables are in saxicoline?

saxicoline has 4 syllables: sax-i-co-line. The stress falls on "i".

What is another word for saxicoline?

Close synonyms include saxicolous, saxatile. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is saxicoline a common word?

saxicoline 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.