turgor

1. 1.

   (biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane

   Broaderstate

   biology

Other forms of turgor

plural

turgors·

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 turgor

What does turgor mean?

turgor means "(biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane".

How many syllables are in turgor?

turgor has 2 syllables: tur-gor. The stress falls on "tur".

Is turgor a common word?

turgor 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.