pilocarpine

1. 1.

   cholinergic alkaloid used in eyedrops to treat glaucoma

   Broaderalkaloid

Other forms of pilocarpine

plural

pilocarpines·

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 pilocarpine

What does pilocarpine mean?

pilocarpine means "cholinergic alkaloid used in eyedrops to treat glaucoma".

How many syllables are in pilocarpine?

pilocarpine has 4 syllables and divides as pi-lo-car-pine 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.