angiosperm

Other forms of angiosperm

plural

angiosperms·

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 angiosperm

What does angiosperm mean?

angiosperm means "plants having seeds in a closed ovary".

How many syllables are in angiosperm?

angiosperm has 4 syllables: an-gi-o-sperm. The stress falls on "gi".

What is another word for angiosperm?

Close synonyms include flowering plant. 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 angiosperm a common word?

angiosperm 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.