testaceous

1. 1.

   relating to or possessing a testa or hard shell

   “testaceous fish”

Questions about testaceous

What does testaceous mean?

testaceous means "relating to or possessing a testa or hard shell".

How many syllables are in testaceous?

testaceous has 4 syllables and divides as te-sta-ce-ous 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 testaceous a common word?

testaceous 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.