velvety-skinned

1. 1.

   having skin like velvet

   Similarskinned

Questions about velvety-skinned

What does velvety-skinned mean?

velvety-skinned means "having skin like velvet".

How many syllables are in velvety-skinned?

velvety-skinned has 4 syllables and divides as vel-vety--skin-ned 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 velvety-skinned a common word?

velvety-skinned 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.