amphicarpa

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   very small genus of twining vines of North America and Asia: hog peanut

   SynonymsAmphicarpaeagenus Amphicarpaeagenus Amphicarpa

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofPapilionoideae

Other forms of amphicarpa

plural

amphicarpas·

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 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: am-phi-car-pa. The stress falls on "phi".

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.