aril
/ˈærɪl/noun
aril is a noun meaning “A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-I-L, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of aril is arils.
What does aril mean?
noun
- 1
A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce aril?
- /ˈærɪl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-aril.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of aril
- arils plural
- arillus
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is aril?
Aril appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th 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).
Aril in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense meat surrounding seed:
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.
Where does aril come from?
1785. From New Latin arillus (compare modern French arille and the English doublet arillus), from Medieval Latin arilli.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).