peduncle

Other forms of peduncle

plural

peduncles·

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 peduncle

What does peduncle mean?

peduncle means "the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in peduncle?

peduncle has 3 syllables: pe-dun-cle. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for peduncle?

Close synonyms include cerebral peduncle. 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 peduncle a common word?

peduncle 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.