hippocampus

1. 1.

   a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories

   Broaderneural structure

   Part oflimbic system
2. 2.

   seahorses

   Synonymsgenus Hippocampus

   Broaderfish genus

   Part ofSyngnathidae

Other forms of hippocampus

plural

hippocampi

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 hippocampus

What does hippocampus mean?

hippocampus means "a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hippocampus?

hippocampus has 4 syllables: hip-po-cam-pus. The stress falls on "cam". In IPA it is /ˌhɪpoʊˈkæmpəs/.

What is another word for hippocampus?

Close synonyms include genus Hippocampus. 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 hippocampus a common word?

hippocampus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hippocampus?

1 word rhymes with hippocampus. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.