carposporous

1. 1.

   having carpospores

Questions about carposporous

What does carposporous mean?

carposporous means "having carpospores".

How many syllables are in carposporous?

carposporous has 4 syllables and divides as car-po-spo-rous 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 carposporous a common word?

carposporous 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.