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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.
plastinate is a verb meaning "preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes". It carries one recorded sense.
preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes
“The doctor plastinates bodies to teach anatomy to his students”
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 plastinate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.