sustentacular

1. 1.

   serving to sustain or support

   “sustentacular cells”

Questions about sustentacular

What does sustentacular mean?

sustentacular means "serving to sustain or support".

How many syllables are in sustentacular?

sustentacular has 5 syllables and divides as su-sten-ta-cu-lar under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is sustentacular a common word?

sustentacular 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.