rhinophyma

Other forms of rhinophyma

plural

rhinophymas·

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 rhinophyma

What does rhinophyma mean?

rhinophyma means "enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin; often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol".

How many syllables are in rhinophyma?

rhinophyma has 4 syllables and divides as rhi-no-phy-ma 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.

What is another word for rhinophyma?

Close synonyms include hypertrophic rosacea, toper's nose, brandy nose, rum nose, rum-blossom. 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 rhinophyma a common word?

rhinophyma 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.