domatium

1. 1.

   a part of a plant (e.g., a leaf) that has been modified to provide protection for insects or mites or fungi

   Broaderplant part

Other forms of domatium

plural

domatia

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 domatium

What does domatium mean?

domatium means "a part of a plant (e.g., a leaf) that has been modified to provide protection for insects or mites or fungi".

How many syllables are in domatium?

domatium has 4 syllables: do-ma-ti-um. The stress falls on "ma".

Is domatium a common word?

domatium 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.