granules

Meaning of granules

plural noun
  1. a small compact particle of a substance.
    granules of sugar
    coffee granules

mid 17th century: from late Latin granulum, diminutive of Latin granum ‘grain’.

Information about granules

Hyphenation of granules

gran-ules

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • granules is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

granules synonyms

Meaning a small hard particle of a substance such as salt or sand:

grain

Meaning a minute portion of matter:

particle

Meaning a small part broken off or separated from something:

fragment

Meaning a small piece, part, or quantity of something:

bit

Meaning a small, thin piece of something cut or split off a larger piece:

sliver

Meaning a small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been used:

scrap

Meaning a very small amount of something:

crumb

Meaning a small piece or amount of food; a mouthful:

morsel

Meaning a minute arachnid which has four pairs of legs when adult, related to the ticks. Many kinds live in the soil and a number are parasitic on plants or animals:

mite

Meaning a tiny piece of a substance; a speck:

mote

Meaning a tiny spot:

speck

Meaning a small round or roundish mark, differing in colour or texture from the surface around it:

spot

Meaning a small round mark or spot:

dot

Meaning a group of atoms bonded together, representing the smallest fundamental unit of a chemical compound that can take part in a chemical reaction:

molecule

Meaning the smallest particle of a chemical element that can exist:

atom

Meaning the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet ( Ι, ι ), transliterated as ‘i’:

iota

Meaning a very small amount:

jot

Meaning a very small part or amount:

whit

Meaning a small amount of something:

smidgen

Meaning another term for smidgen:

smidge

Anagrams of granules

sunagrel

Words that rhyme with granules

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