progymnosperm

1. 1.

   an ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived

   Broadergymnosperm

Other forms of progymnosperm

plural

progymnosperms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about progymnosperm

What does progymnosperm mean?

progymnosperm means "an ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived".

How many syllables are in progymnosperm?

progymnosperm has 4 syllables: pro-gym-no-sperm. The stress falls on "gym".

Is progymnosperm a common word?

progymnosperm 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.