ascocarpous

1. 1.

   of or relating to ascocarps

   botany

Questions about ascocarpous

What does ascocarpous mean?

ascocarpous means "of or relating to ascocarps".

How many syllables are in ascocarpous?

ascocarpous has 4 syllables and divides as a-sco-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.

Is ascocarpous a common word?

ascocarpous 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.