omasum

Questions about omasum

What does omasum mean?

omasum means "the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant".

How many syllables are in omasum?

omasum has 3 syllables and divides as o-ma-sum 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.

What is another word for omasum?

Close synonyms include psalterium, third stomach. 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 omasum a common word?

omasum 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.