valvular

1. 1.

   relating to or operating by means of valves

Questions about valvular

What does valvular mean?

valvular means "relating to or operating by means of valves".

How many syllables are in valvular?

valvular has 3 syllables: val-vu-lar. The stress falls on "val".

Is valvular a common word?

valvular 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.