pteridophyte

Questions about pteridophyte

What does pteridophyte mean?

pteridophyte means "plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores".

How many syllables are in pteridophyte?

pteridophyte has 4 syllables and divides as pte-ri-do-phyte 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 pteridophyte?

Close synonyms include nonflowering plant. 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 pteridophyte a common word?

pteridophyte 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.