adenoid

1. 1.

   relating to or resembling lymphatic glands or lymphoid tissue

Other forms of adenoid

plural

adenoids·

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 adenoid

What does adenoid mean?

adenoid means "a collection of lymphatic tissue in the throat behind the uvula (on the posterior wall and roof of the nasopharynx)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adenoid?

adenoid has 3 syllables: ad-e-noid. The stress falls on "ad". In IPA it is /ˈædəˌnɔɪd/.

What is another word for adenoid?

Close synonyms include pharyngeal tonsil, Luschka's tonsil, third tonsil, tonsilla pharyngealis, tonsilla adenoidea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adenoid a common word?

adenoid 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.

What rhymes with adenoid?

3 words rhyme with adenoid. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.