archegonial

1. 1.

   of or relating to an archegonium

   Synonymsarchegoniate

   botany

Questions about archegonial

What does archegonial mean?

archegonial means "of or relating to an archegonium".

How many syllables are in archegonial?

archegonial has 5 syllables and divides as ar-che-go-ni-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.

What is another word for archegonial?

Close synonyms include archegoniate. 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 archegonial a common word?

archegonial 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.