ossiculate

1. 1.

   pertaining to the ossicles in the middle ear

   Synonymsossicular

Questions about ossiculate

What does ossiculate mean?

ossiculate means "pertaining to the ossicles in the middle ear".

How many syllables are in ossiculate?

ossiculate has 4 syllables: os-si-cu-late. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for ossiculate?

Close synonyms include ossicular. 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 ossiculate a common word?

ossiculate 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.