supraocular

1. 1.

   located or occurring above the eye socket

   Synonymssupraorbital

Questions about supraocular

What does supraocular mean?

supraocular means "located or occurring above the eye socket".

How many syllables are in supraocular?

supraocular has 4 syllables: su-prao-cu-lar. The stress falls on "prao".

What is another word for supraocular?

Close synonyms include supraorbital. 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 supraocular a common word?

supraocular 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.