granule

Meaning of granule

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 granule

Hyphenation of granule

gran-ule

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • granule is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

granule 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

Translation of granule

Anagrams of granule

unlarge, unregal

Words that rhyme with granule

membranule, organule, spanule, phlyctenule, renule, splenule, venule, carinule, disseminule, dominule, foraminule, gallinule, machinule, pulvinule, retinule, seminule, spinule, vaginule, veinule, annule, antennule, pinnule, conule, coronule, hypoconule, metaconule, protoconule, saponule, umbonule, zonule, zoonule, cornule, diurnule, faunule, lacunule, lunule, pseudolunule

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