auriculare

1. 1.

   the craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus

   Synonymsauricular point

   Broadercraniometric point

   Part ofauditory meatus

Other forms of auriculare

plural

auriculares·

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 auriculare

What does auriculare mean?

auriculare means "the craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus".

How many syllables are in auriculare?

auriculare has 4 syllables: au-ri-cu-lare. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for auriculare?

Close synonyms include auricular point. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is auriculare a common word?

auriculare 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.