carpellate

1. 1.

   bearing or consisting of carpels

   Synonymspistillate

   Antonymsacarpelous

   botany

Questions about carpellate

What does carpellate mean?

carpellate means "bearing or consisting of carpels".

How many syllables are in carpellate?

carpellate has 3 syllables: car-pel-late. The stress falls on "car".

What is another word for carpellate?

Close synonyms include pistillate. 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.

What is the opposite of carpellate?

The recorded antonyms are acarpelous.

Is carpellate a common word?

carpellate 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.