catarrhal

1. 1.

   of or relating to a catarrh

   “catarrhal fever is any of several respiratory or oral diseases of livestock such as bluetongue in horses and sheep”

Questions about catarrhal

What does catarrhal mean?

catarrhal means "of or relating to a catarrh".

How many syllables are in catarrhal?

catarrhal has 3 syllables and divides as ca-tarr-hal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is catarrhal a common word?

catarrhal 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.