subocular

1. 1.

   situated on or below the floor of the eye socket

   “a suborbital bone”

   Synonymssuborbital

Questions about subocular

What does subocular mean?

subocular means "situated on or below the floor of the eye socket".

How many syllables are in subocular?

subocular has 4 syllables: su-bo-cu-lar. The stress falls on "bo".

What is another word for subocular?

Close synonyms include suborbital. 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 subocular a common word?

subocular is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.