thelarche

1. 1.

   the start of breast development in a woman at the beginning of puberty

   Broaderstart

Other forms of thelarche

plural

thelarches·

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 thelarche

What does thelarche mean?

thelarche means "the start of breast development in a woman at the beginning of puberty".

How many syllables are in thelarche?

thelarche has 2 syllables and divides as the-larche 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.