alvine

1. 1.

   of or relating to the intestines

Other forms of alvine

comparative

alviner·

superlative

alvinest·

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 alvine

What does alvine mean?

alvine means "of or relating to the intestines".

How many syllables are in alvine?

alvine has 2 syllables: al-vine. The stress falls on "al".

Is alvine a common word?

alvine 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.