allogamous

1. 1.

   relating to cross-fertilization in plants

Questions about allogamous

What does allogamous mean?

allogamous means "relating to cross-fertilization in plants".

How many syllables are in allogamous?

allogamous has 4 syllables and divides as al-lo-ga-mous 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.

Is allogamous a common word?

allogamous 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.