acromphalus

1. 1.

   abnormal protrusion of the navel; sometimes the start of umbilical hernia

   Broaderabnormality

Other forms of acromphalus

plural

acromphaluses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acromphalus

What does acromphalus mean?

acromphalus means "abnormal protrusion of the navel; sometimes the start of umbilical hernia".

How many syllables are in acromphalus?

acromphalus has 4 syllables: a-crom-pha-lus. The stress falls on "crom".

Is acromphalus a common word?

acromphalus 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.