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cross-fertilize

How many syllables in cross-fertilize?

  4 syllables

Divide cross-fertilize into syllables:   cross-fer-ti-lize
Stressed syllable in cross-fertilize:   cross-fer-ti-lize
How to say cross-fertilize:

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