saxicolous

1. 1.

   growing on or living among rocks

   Synonymssaxatilesaxicoline

Questions about saxicolous

What does saxicolous mean?

saxicolous means "growing on or living among rocks".

How many syllables are in saxicolous?

saxicolous has 4 syllables and divides as sax-i-co-lous 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.

What is another word for saxicolous?

Close synonyms include saxatile, saxicoline. 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 saxicolous a common word?

saxicolous 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.