sweat gland

Questions about sweat gland

What is another word for sweat gland?

It depends which sweat gland you mean. In the sense “any of the glands in the skin that secrete perspiration”, the synonyms are sudoriferous gland. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of sweat gland?

WordNet records no antonym for sweat gland. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for sweat gland come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of sweat gland

• Full entry for sweat glandAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sweat glandWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.