fasciola
/fəˈsiː.əl.ə/noun
fasciola is a noun meaning “A band of grey matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-S-C-I-O-L-A and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fasciola is fasciolae.
What does fasciola mean?
noun
- 1
A band of grey matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fasciola?
- US /fəˈsiː.əl.ə/
- US /fəˈsaɪ.əl.ə/
Fasciola has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fasciola
- fasciolae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fasciola?
Fasciola appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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).
Where does fasciola come from?
Borrowed from Latin fasciola.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).