leucocyte

Other forms of leucocyte

plural

leucocytes·

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 leucocyte

What does leucocyte mean?

leucocyte means "blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system".

How many syllables are in leucocyte?

leucocyte has 4 syllables: le-u-co-cyte. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for leucocyte?

Close synonyms include leukocyte, white blood cell, white cell, white blood corpuscle, white corpuscle. 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 leucocyte a common word?

leucocyte 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.