apocarpous

1. 1.

   (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses

   Antonymssyncarpous

   plant

Questions about apocarpous

What does apocarpous mean?

apocarpous means "(of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses".

How many syllables are in apocarpous?

apocarpous has 4 syllables and divides as a-po-car-pous 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 the opposite of apocarpous?

The recorded antonyms are syncarpous.

Is apocarpous a common word?

apocarpous 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.