carrel

1. 1.

   French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944)

   SynonymsAlexis Carrel

   Broadersurgeonbiologist
2. 2.

   small individual study area in a library

   Synonymscarrellcubiclestall

   Broaderalcove

   Part oflibrary

Other forms of carrel

plural

carrels·

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 carrel

What does carrel mean?

carrel means "French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carrel?

carrel has 2 syllables: car-rel. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkæɹəl/.

What is another word for carrel?

Close synonyms include Alexis Carrel, carrell, cubicle, stall. 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 carrel a common word?

carrel 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.

What rhymes with carrel?

2 words rhyme with carrel. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.