sulcate

1. 1.

   having deep narrow furrows or grooves

Other forms of sulcate

comparative

sulcater·

superlative

sulcatest·

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 sulcate

What does sulcate mean?

sulcate means "having deep narrow furrows or grooves".

How many syllables are in sulcate?

sulcate has 2 syllables: sul-cate. The stress falls on "sul".

Is sulcate a common word?

sulcate 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.