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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
amnion is a noun meaning "thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)". It carries one recorded sense.
thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)
mammal
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for amnion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.