acrocentric

1. 1.

   having a subterminal centromere

   “an acrocentric chromosome”

Questions about acrocentric

What does acrocentric mean?

acrocentric means "having a subterminal centromere".

How many syllables are in acrocentric?

acrocentric has 4 syllables and divides as a-cro-cen-tric 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 acrocentric a common word?

acrocentric 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.