mucopurulent

1. 1.

   containing or composed of mucus and pus

Questions about mucopurulent

What does mucopurulent mean?

mucopurulent means "containing or composed of mucus and pus".

How many syllables are in mucopurulent?

mucopurulent has 5 syllables: mu-co-pu-ru-lent. The stress falls on "pu".

Is mucopurulent a common word?

mucopurulent 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.