gymnospermous

1. 1.

   relating to or characteristic of plants of the class Gymnospermae

Questions about gymnospermous

What does gymnospermous mean?

gymnospermous means "relating to or characteristic of plants of the class Gymnospermae".

How many syllables are in gymnospermous?

gymnospermous has 4 syllables and divides as gym-no-sper-mous 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 gymnospermous a common word?

gymnospermous 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.