adipocere

Meaning of adipocere

noun

a greyish waxy substance formed by the decomposition of soft tissue in dead bodies subjected to moisture.

early 19th century: from French adipocire, from Latin adeps, adip- ‘fat’ + French cire ‘wax’ (from Latin cera ).

Information about adipocere

It is a name.
The plural form of adipocere is: adipoceres.
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Hyphenation of adipocere

adipocere

It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
adipocere is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Translation of adipocere

French: adipocire
Italian: adipocera
Spanish: adipocera

Anagrams of adipocere

Percoidea, percoidea

Words that rhyme with adipocere

CerE, cere, BCerE, agricere, chelicere, insincere, nancere, sincere, unsincere, lipocere, procere

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