leptosporangiate

1. 1.

   (of ferns) having each sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell

   “leptosporangiate ferns”

   Antonymseusporangiate

Questions about leptosporangiate

What does leptosporangiate mean?

leptosporangiate means "(of ferns) having each sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell".

How many syllables are in leptosporangiate?

leptosporangiate has 6 syllables and divides as lep-to-spo-ran-gi-ate 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.

What is the opposite of leptosporangiate?

The recorded antonyms are eusporangiate.

Is leptosporangiate a common word?

leptosporangiate 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.