infundibulum

Questions about infundibulum

What does infundibulum mean?

infundibulum means "any of various funnel-shaped parts of the body (but especially the hypophyseal stalk)".

How many syllables are in infundibulum?

infundibulum has 5 syllables and divides as in-fun-di-bu-lum 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.

Is infundibulum a common word?

infundibulum 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for infundibulum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.