haemagglutinate

Questions about haemagglutinate

What does haemagglutinate mean?

haemagglutinate means "cause the clumping together (of red blood cells)".

How many syllables are in haemagglutinate?

haemagglutinate has 6 syllables: ha-e-mag-glu-ti-nate. The stress falls on "glu".

What is another word for haemagglutinate?

Close synonyms include hemagglutinate. 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 haemagglutinate a common word?

haemagglutinate 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.