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: a-cro-car-pous. The stress falls on "cro".

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.