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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
papilla is a noun meaning "(botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell
“the papillae of the tongue”
a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for papilla come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.