tube-nosed

1. 1.

   having a tubular nose

   Similarnosed

Questions about tube-nosed

What does tube-nosed mean?

tube-nosed means "having a tubular nose".

How many syllables are in tube-nosed?

tube-nosed has 3 syllables and divides as tube--no-sed 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 tube-nosed a common word?

tube-nosed 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.