stoneface

Other forms of stoneface

plural

stonefaces·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stoneface

What does stoneface mean?

stoneface means "any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones".

How many syllables are in stoneface?

stoneface has 3 syllables: sto-ne-face. The stress falls on "sto".

What is another word for stoneface?

Close synonyms include lithops, living stone, stone-face, stone plant, stone life face. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stoneface a common word?

stoneface 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.