short-stalked

1. 1.

   of plants having relatively short stalks

   Similarshort

Questions about short-stalked

What does short-stalked mean?

short-stalked means "of plants having relatively short stalks".

How many syllables are in short-stalked?

short-stalked has 2 syllables and divides as short--stalked 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-stalked a common word?

short-stalked 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.