homostylous

1. 1.

   (botany) having styles all of the same length

   Synonymshomostylichomostyled

   botany

Questions about homostylous

What does homostylous mean?

homostylous means "(botany) having styles all of the same length".

How many syllables are in homostylous?

homostylous has 4 syllables: ho-mo-sty-lous. The stress falls on "mo".

What is another word for homostylous?

Close synonyms include homostylic, homostyled. 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 homostylous a common word?

homostylous 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.