mandibulate

1. 1.

   having mandibles

Questions about mandibulate

What does mandibulate mean?

mandibulate means "having mandibles".

How many syllables are in mandibulate?

mandibulate has 4 syllables and divides as man-di-bu-late 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 mandibulate a common word?

mandibulate 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.