spine-tipped

1. 1.

   of a plant tipped with a spine

   Similartipped

Questions about spine-tipped

What does spine-tipped mean?

spine-tipped means "of a plant tipped with a spine".

How many syllables are in spine-tipped?

spine-tipped has 3 syllables and divides as spine--tip-ped 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 spine-tipped a common word?

spine-tipped 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.