pupillary

1. 1.

   of or relating to the pupil of the eye

Questions about pupillary

What does pupillary mean?

pupillary means "of or relating to the pupil of the eye".

How many syllables are in pupillary?

pupillary has 4 syllables and divides as pu-pil-la-ry 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 pupillary a common word?

pupillary 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.