amphicarpa

Questions about amphicarpa

What does amphicarpa mean?

amphicarpa means "very small genus of twining vines of North America and Asia: hog peanut".

How many syllables are in amphicarpa?

amphicarpa has 4 syllables and divides as am-phi-car-pa 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 another word for amphicarpa?

Close synonyms include Amphicarpaea, genus Amphicarpaea, genus Amphicarpa. 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.

Is amphicarpa a common word?

amphicarpa 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.