pleurocarpous

1. 1.

   (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches

   Antonymsacrocarpous

Questions about pleurocarpous

What does pleurocarpous mean?

pleurocarpous means "(of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches".

How many syllables are in pleurocarpous?

pleurocarpous has 5 syllables: ple-u-ro-car-pous. The stress falls on "ro".

What is the opposite of pleurocarpous?

The recorded antonyms are acrocarpous.

Is pleurocarpous a common word?

pleurocarpous 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.