sharp-limbed

1. 1.

   having sharp limbs

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Questions about sharp-limbed

What does sharp-limbed mean?

sharp-limbed means "having sharp limbs".

How many syllables are in sharp-limbed?

sharp-limbed has 2 syllables and divides as shar-p-limbed 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 sharp-limbed a common word?

sharp-limbed 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.