tonsil

Meaning of tonsil

noun
  1. Either of a pair of small masses of lymphoid tissue that lie on each side of the throat and that help protect the body against infection; palatine tonsil.
  2. Any of various small masses of lymphoid tissues, including palatine tonsils, adenoids and lingual tonsils.

Information about tonsil

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of tonsil is: tonsils.
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Hyphenation of tonsil

ton-sil

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • tonsil is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

tonsil synonyms

Meaning palatine tonsil:

tonsilla

Anagrams of tonsil

Liston, Nilots, Solnit

Words that rhyme with tonsil

Mansil, Pansil, Transil, Vansil, Promensil, bensil, oestromensil, pensil, utensil

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