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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
lenticel is a noun meaning "one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue". It carries one recorded sense.
one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lenticel come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.