papillate

1. 1.

   resembling or covered with papillae

Questions about papillate

What does papillate mean?

papillate means "resembling or covered with papillae".

How many syllables are in papillate?

papillate has 3 syllables and divides as pa-pil-late 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.

Is papillate a common word?

papillate 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.