Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sylvate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: syl-vate
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

abietate (salt or ester of sylvic acid (abietic acid)).

Archaic

Etymology

From sylvic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

sylvates (plural)

Questions

What does sylvate mean?: abietate (salt or ester of sylvic acid (abietic acid)).
Where does sylvate come from?: From sylvic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

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