spiny-finned

1. 1.

   of or relating to fish with spiny fins

Questions about spiny-finned

What does spiny-finned mean?

spiny-finned means "of or relating to fish with spiny fins".

How many syllables are in spiny-finned?

spiny-finned has 3 syllables and divides as spiny--fin-ned 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 spiny-finned a common word?

spiny-finned 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.