campanulate

1. 1.

   shaped like a bell or campana

   “campanulate flowers of the genus Campanula”

   Synonymscampanularcampanulated

Questions about campanulate

What does campanulate mean?

campanulate means "shaped like a bell or campana".

How many syllables are in campanulate?

campanulate has 4 syllables: cam-pa-nu-late. The stress falls on "pa".

What is another word for campanulate?

Close synonyms include campanular, campanulated. 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 campanulate a common word?

campanulate 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.