secretor

Other forms of secretor

plural

secretors·

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 secretor

What does secretor mean?

secretor means "any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream".

How many syllables are in secretor?

secretor has 3 syllables: se-cre-tor. The stress falls on "se".

What is another word for secretor?

Close synonyms include gland, secretory organ, secreter. 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 secretor a common word?

secretor 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.