hematocyst

Questions about hematocyst

What does hematocyst mean?

hematocyst means "a cyst containing blood".

How many syllables are in hematocyst?

hematocyst has 4 syllables and divides as he-ma-to-cyst 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.

What is another word for hematocyst?

Close synonyms include hemorrhagic cyst, blood cyst. 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 hematocyst a common word?

hematocyst 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.