Definitions for granules

granules gran·ule

Spelling: [gran-yool]
IPA: /ˈgræn yul/

Granules is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 450 anagrams from letters in granules (aeglnrsu).

Definitions for granules

noun

  1. a little grain.
  2. a small particle; pellet.
  3. a corpuscle; sporule.

Origin of granules

First recorded in 1645-55, granule is from the Late Latin word grānulum small grain. See grain, -ule

Examples for granules

With intense dry heat, as in toasting, the granule expands and opens, and the contents change to dextrin.

For a peripheral layer is plainly distinguishable from the central part of the granule.

But no power that we could employ was capable of detecting a granule in it.

The similarity in the pictures ought to serve as a proof of the near relation of the granule form and non-granule varieties.

In the upper portions of the glacier movement due to pressure probably takes place by the gliding of one granule over another.

This granule is the water bottle drained to the last drop, is the nurse's breast emptied of all its contents.

The size of the individual granules is constant in any animal species for every kind of granule—excepting only the mast cells.

When a variole, tubercle, granule, &c. has a depression in its centre.

According to him the granule formation is rather variable, and may be induced or suppressed by cultural methods.

The cyst in which they lie is filled with creamy substance made up of spores and granule matter.

Word Value for granules
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

Similar words for granules
Word of the day