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pulmonic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.69 in modern English

Syllables
pul-monic
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, pertaining to, or produced by the lungs.

adj

Produced by pushing air from or into the lungs.

noun

a medicine for treating a lung disease.

Obsolete

noun

a person affected by a lung disease.

Obsolete

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin pulmōnicus, from pulmō (“lung”).

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

pulmonics (plural)

Derived Forms

apulmonic gastropulmonic neopulmonic nonpulmonic palaeopulmonic paleopulmonic pulmonically subpulmonic transpulmonic

Phrases

pulmonic acid pulmonic sounds pulmonic valve

Frequently Paired Words

velaric glottalic

Synonyms

pulmonary pneumonic

Questions

What does pulmonic mean?
Of, pertaining to, or produced by the lungs.
Where does pulmonic come from?
Borrowed from Medieval Latin pulmōnicus, from pulmō (“lung”).

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