adventitial

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to the adventitia

Questions about adventitial

What does adventitial mean?

adventitial means "of or pertaining to the adventitia".

How many syllables are in adventitial?

adventitial has 5 syllables and divides as ad-ven-ti-ti-al 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 adventitial a common word?

adventitial 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.