short-snouted

1. 1.

   having a snout that is shorter than average

   Similarshort

Questions about short-snouted

What does short-snouted mean?

short-snouted means "having a snout that is shorter than average".

How many syllables are in short-snouted?

short-snouted has 3 syllables and divides as short--snou-ted 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 short-snouted a common word?

short-snouted 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.