Hyphenation of occiput

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word occiput? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

oc-ciput

Definitions of occiput:

1.	Back part of the head or skull

Synonyms of occiput:

noun	bone, os

Last hyphenations of this language

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