acrocarpous

1. 1.

   (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem

   Antonymspleurocarpous

Questions about acrocarpous

What does acrocarpous mean?

acrocarpous means "(of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem".

How many syllables are in acrocarpous?

acrocarpous has 4 syllables and divides as a-cro-car-pous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of acrocarpous?

The recorded antonyms are pleurocarpous.

Is acrocarpous a common word?

acrocarpous 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.