thistlelike

1. 1.

   resembling a thistle

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Questions about thistlelike

What does thistlelike mean?

thistlelike means "resembling a thistle".

How many syllables are in thistlelike?

thistlelike has 3 syllables and divides as thist-le-like 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 thistlelike a common word?

thistlelike 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.