spiral-shelled

1. 1.

   having a shell that forms a spiral

   Similarshelled

Questions about spiral-shelled

What does spiral-shelled mean?

spiral-shelled means "having a shell that forms a spiral".

How many syllables are in spiral-shelled?

spiral-shelled has 3 syllables and divides as spiral--shel-led 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 spiral-shelled a common word?

spiral-shelled 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.