telocentric

1. 1.

   having the form of a straight rod because the centromere is in a terminal position

   “a telocentric chromosome”

Questions about telocentric

What does telocentric mean?

telocentric means "having the form of a straight rod because the centromere is in a terminal position".

How many syllables are in telocentric?

telocentric has 4 syllables and divides as te-lo-cen-tric 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 telocentric a common word?

telocentric 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.