three-needled

1. 1.

   (of conifers) having three needles

   Similarsimple

Questions about three-needled

What does three-needled mean?

three-needled means "(of conifers) having three needles".

How many syllables are in three-needled?

three-needled has 2 syllables and divides as three-need-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 three-needled a common word?

three-needled 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.