stainable

1. 1.

   capable of being stained (especially of cells and cell parts)

Questions about stainable

What does stainable mean?

stainable means "capable of being stained (especially of cells and cell parts)".

How many syllables are in stainable?

stainable has 3 syllables: stai-na-ble. The stress falls on "stai".

Is stainable a common word?

stainable 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.