What does ventricose mean?

ventricose means "having a swelling on one side".

How many syllables are in ventricose?

ventricose has 3 syllables: ven-tri-cose. The stress falls on "ven".

What is another word for ventricose?

Close synonyms include ventricous. 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 ventricose a common word?

ventricose 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.

ventricose — meaning, pronunciation and definition

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
having a swelling on one side
“the ventricose gullet of an insect”
Synonymsventricous
Similarprotrusive
biology · anatomy

Questions about ventricose

What does ventricose mean?: ventricose means "having a swelling on one side".
How many syllables are in ventricose?: ventricose has 3 syllables: ven-tri-cose. The stress falls on "ven".
What is another word for ventricose?: Close synonyms include ventricous. 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.

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