basilar

1. 1.

   of or relating to or located at the base

   “the basilar membrane of the cochlea”

   Synonymsbasilary

Questions about basilar

What does basilar mean?

basilar means "of or relating to or located at the base".

How many syllables are in basilar?

basilar has 3 syllables: ba-si-lar. The stress falls on "ba".

What is another word for basilar?

Close synonyms include basilary. 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 basilar a common word?

basilar 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.