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: a-po-car-pous. The stress falls on "po".

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.