media
The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
Noun 4 meanings
The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
A voiced stop consonant.
One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.
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MEDIA at a glance
MEDIA has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (M 3 + E 1 + D 2 + I 1 + A 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #478 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with media
All rhymes- MULTIMEDIA15
- ENCYCLOPEDIA22
- ARCADIA10
- CHLAMYDIA20
- ENCYCLOPAEDIA23
- STADIA7
- TACHYCARDIA22
- INTERMEDIA13
- BRADYCARDIA20
- CONIDIA10
- GIARDIA9
- CYCLOPEDIA20
One letter away
- MEDIC10
- MEDII8
- REDIA6
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