trabecular

1. 1.

   of or relating to trabeculae

   Synonymstrabeculate

Questions about trabecular

What does trabecular mean?

trabecular means "of or relating to trabeculae".

How many syllables are in trabecular?

trabecular has 4 syllables and divides as tra-be-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.

What is another word for trabecular?

Close synonyms include trabeculate. 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 trabecular a common word?

trabecular 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.