scaly-tailed

1. 1.

   having a scaly tail

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Questions about scaly-tailed

What does scaly-tailed mean?

scaly-tailed means "having a scaly tail".

How many syllables are in scaly-tailed?

scaly-tailed has 3 syllables and divides as scaly--tai-led 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 scaly-tailed a common word?

scaly-tailed 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.