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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
cytosol is a noun meaning "the aqueous part of the cytoplasm within which various particles and organelles are suspended". It carries one recorded sense.
the aqueous part of the cytoplasm within which various particles and organelles are suspended
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cytosol come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.