osteophyte

1. 1.

   small abnormal bony outgrowth

   Broaderprocess

Other forms of osteophyte

plural

osteophytes·

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 osteophyte

What does osteophyte mean?

osteophyte means "small abnormal bony outgrowth".

How many syllables are in osteophyte?

osteophyte has 4 syllables and divides as o-ste-o-phyte 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.