spore-bearing

1. 1.

   bearing spores instead of producing seeds

   Similarflowerless

Questions about spore-bearing

What does spore-bearing mean?

spore-bearing means "bearing spores instead of producing seeds".

How many syllables are in spore-bearing?

spore-bearing has 5 syllables and divides as spo-re--be-a-ring 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.

Is spore-bearing a common word?

spore-bearing 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.