sporogenous

1. 1.

   producing spores or reproducing by means of spores

Questions about sporogenous

What does sporogenous mean?

sporogenous means "producing spores or reproducing by means of spores".

How many syllables are in sporogenous?

sporogenous has 4 syllables and divides as spo-ro-ge-nous 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 sporogenous a common word?

sporogenous 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.