stoma

Other forms of stoma

plural

stomata

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 stoma

What does stoma mean?

stoma means "a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stoma?

stoma has 2 syllables: sto-ma. The stress falls on "sto". In IPA it is /ˈstoʊmə/.

What is another word for stoma?

Close synonyms include stomate, pore. 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 stoma a common word?

stoma 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.

What rhymes with stoma?

2 words rhyme with stoma. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.