vomeronasal
adjective
vomeronasal is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or situated near the vomer bone between the nose and the mouth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-M-E-R-O-N-A-S-A-L, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vomeronasal mean?
adjective
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Of, pertaining to, or situated near the vomer bone between the nose and the mouth
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vomeronasal?
Vomeronasal appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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).
Vomeronasal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of, pertaining to, or situated near the vomer bone between the nose and the mout:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | vomeronasal |
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 vomeronasal come from?
From vomer + -o- + nasal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).