acarpelous

1. 1.

   having no carpels

   Synonymsacarpellous

   Antonymscarpellate

   botany

Questions about acarpelous

What does acarpelous mean?

acarpelous means "having no carpels".

How many syllables are in acarpelous?

acarpelous has 4 syllables: a-car-pe-lous. The stress falls on "car".

What is another word for acarpelous?

Close synonyms include acarpellous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of acarpelous?

The recorded antonyms are carpellate.

Is acarpelous a common word?

acarpelous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.