sporangium

Other forms of sporangium

plural

sporangia

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 sporangium

What does sporangium mean?

sporangium means "organ containing or producing spores".

How many syllables are in sporangium?

sporangium has 4 syllables: spo-ran-gi-um. The stress falls on "ran".

What is another word for sporangium?

Close synonyms include spore case, spore sac. 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 sporangium a common word?

sporangium 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.