acrogen

1. 1.

   any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem

   Broaderplant

Other forms of acrogen

plural

acrogens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acrogen

What does acrogen mean?

acrogen means "any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem".

How many syllables are in acrogen?

acrogen has 3 syllables: a-cro-gen. The stress falls on "a".

Is acrogen a common word?

acrogen is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.