radula
/ˈɹæd͡ʒ.ʊ.lə/noun
radula is a noun meaning “The rasping tongue of snails and all other mollusks except bivalves” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-D-U-L-A and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of radula is radulae.
What does radula mean?
noun
- 1
The rasping tongue of snails and all other mollusks except bivalves.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce radula?
- US /ˈɹæd͡ʒ.ʊ.lə/
Radula has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of radula
- radulae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is radula?
Radula appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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).
Radula in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the rasping tongue of snails and most other molluscs:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | rádula |
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 radula come from?
Borrowed from Latin rādula (“scraper”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).