self-pollinating

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of self-pollination

   botany

Questions about self-pollinating

What does self-pollinating mean?

self-pollinating means "of or relating to or characteristic of self-pollination".

How many syllables are in self-pollinating?

self-pollinating has 5 syllables: self--pol-li-na-ting. The stress falls on "li".

Is self-pollinating a common word?

self-pollinating 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.