thorn-tipped

1. 1.

   of a plant tipped with a thorn

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Questions about thorn-tipped

What does thorn-tipped mean?

thorn-tipped means "of a plant tipped with a thorn".

How many syllables are in thorn-tipped?

thorn-tipped has 2 syllables and divides as thorn--tipped 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 thorn-tipped a common word?

thorn-tipped 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.