vallecula

Questions about vallecula

What does vallecula mean?

vallecula means "(anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part".

How many syllables are in vallecula?

vallecula has 4 syllables and divides as val-le-cu-la 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 vallecula?

Close synonyms include groove. 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 vallecula a common word?

vallecula 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.