angiocarpous

1. 1.

   having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk

   Synonymsangiocarpic

Questions about angiocarpous

What does angiocarpous mean?

angiocarpous means "having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk".

How many syllables are in angiocarpous?

angiocarpous has 5 syllables: an-gi-o-car-pous. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for angiocarpous?

Close synonyms include angiocarpic. 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 angiocarpous a common word?

angiocarpous 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.