ambulacrum

1. 1.

   one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located

   Broaderbody part

   Part ofechinoderm

Other forms of ambulacrum

plural

ambulacra

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 ambulacrum

What does ambulacrum mean?

ambulacrum means "one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located".

How many syllables are in ambulacrum?

ambulacrum has 4 syllables: am-bu-la-crum. The stress falls on "bu".

Is ambulacrum a common word?

ambulacrum 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.