secretory

1. 1.

   of or relating to or producing a secretion

   “a secretory cell”

Questions about secretory

What does secretory mean?

secretory means "of or relating to or producing a secretion".

How many syllables are in secretory?

secretory has 4 syllables and divides as se-cre-to-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 secretory a common word?

secretory 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.