tiger-striped

1. 1.

   having stripes resembling those of a tiger

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Questions about tiger-striped

What does tiger-striped mean?

tiger-striped means "having stripes resembling those of a tiger".

How many syllables are in tiger-striped?

tiger-striped has 3 syllables and divides as tiger--stri-ped 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 tiger-striped a common word?

tiger-striped 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.