Word.ws English Dictionary

amacrine

/ˈæməkɹɪn/

amacrine adjective: without long processes.

Adjective

amacrine (not comparable)

  1. Without long processes.

Noun

amacrine (plural amacrines)

  1. Any cell that does not have a long process.

Forms of amacrine

pluralamacrines

Origin of amacrine

From a- (“not”) + Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós, “long”) + -ine.

Questions about amacrine

What does amacrine mean?
Amacrine means without long processes.
What part of speech is amacrine?
Amacrine can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce amacrine?
Amacrine is pronounced /ˈæməkɹɪn/.

Words near amacrine in the dictionary

  1. Amachers
  2. Amacker
  3. Amackers
  4. amacratic
  5. amacrinal
  6. amacrine
  7. amacrines
  8. amadan
  9. amadans
  10. amadavat
  11. amadavats

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: amacrine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “amacrine.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/amacrine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.