pleurocarp

Questions about pleurocarp

What does pleurocarp mean?

pleurocarp means "a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk".

How many syllables are in pleurocarp?

pleurocarp has 4 syllables and divides as ple-u-ro-carp 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 another word for pleurocarp?

Close synonyms include pleurocarpous moss. 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 pleurocarp?

The recorded antonyms are acrocarp.

Is pleurocarp a common word?

pleurocarp 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.