musculature

Other forms of musculature

plural

musculatures·

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 musculature

What does musculature mean?

musculature means "the muscular system of an organism".

How many syllables are in musculature?

musculature has 4 syllables: mus-cu-la-ture. The stress falls on "mus". In IPA it is /ˈmʌskjələtʃɚ/.

What is another word for musculature?

Close synonyms include muscular structure, muscle system. 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 musculature a common word?

musculature is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.