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Is hilum a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hilum is a Scrabble US word. The word hilum is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is hilum a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hilum is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

H4I1L1U1M3

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Yes. The word hilum is a Words With Friends word. The word hilum is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

HILUM,

4-letter words (1 found)

MUIL,

3-letter words (5 found)

HIM,HUI,HUM,LUM,MIL,

2-letter words (7 found)

HI,HM,LI,MI,MU,UH,UM,

You can make 14 words from hilum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of hilum

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Definitions and meaning of hilum

hilum

Alternative forms

  • hilus

Etymology

From Latin hīlum (“a trifle; a spot on a seed”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ.ləm/
  • Rhymes: -aɪləm
  • Hyphenation: hi‧lum

Noun

hilum (plural hila)

  1. (botany) The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support.
  2. (botany) The nucleus of a starch grain.
  3. (anatomy) A depression or fissure through which ducts, nerves, or blood vessels enter and leave a gland or organ; a porta.

Synonyms

  • (fissure): porta

Related terms

  • hilar

Translations

Further reading

  • Hilum (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Hilum (anatomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Unknown, possibly from a Semitic source, or a variant of filum (“thread”) if the original sense was “little thread, fiber”.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈhiː.lum/, [ˈhiːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈi.lum/, [ˈiːlum]

Noun

hīlum n (genitive hīlī); second declension

  1. trifle
  2. (in the negative) not a whit, not in the least

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: hílum
  • → English: hilum, hilus
  • French: hile
  • → German: Hilum
  • Italian: ilo
  • Portuguese: hilo
  • Spanish: hilio

References

  • “hilum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “hilum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • hilum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • hilum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • hilum in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Source: wiktionary.org