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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.
aril is a noun meaning "fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelops the seed". It carries one recorded sense.
fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelops the seed
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 aril come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.