albuginea
noun
albuginea is a noun meaning “A layer of white, fibrous tissue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-L-B-U-G-I-N-E-A, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of albuginea is albugineae.
What does albuginea mean?
noun
- 1
A layer of white, fibrous tissue.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of albuginea
- albugineae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is albuginea?
Albuginea appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Albuginea in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense layer of white, fibrous tissue:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | albugínea |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.