vacuolated

1. 1.

   formed into or containing one or more vacuoles or small membrane-bound cavities within a cell

   Synonymsvacuolate

Questions about vacuolated

What does vacuolated mean?

vacuolated means "formed into or containing one or more vacuoles or small membrane-bound cavities within a cell".

How many syllables are in vacuolated?

vacuolated has 5 syllables and divides as va-cu-o-la-ted 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 vacuolated?

Close synonyms include vacuolate. 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 vacuolated a common word?

vacuolated 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.