antheridial

1. 1.

   relating to or characterized by an antheridium

Questions about antheridial

What does antheridial mean?

antheridial means "relating to or characterized by an antheridium".

How many syllables are in antheridial?

antheridial has 5 syllables and divides as an-the-ri-di-al 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 antheridial a common word?

antheridial 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.