sporophyll

1. 1.

   leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia

   Synonymssporophyl

   Broaderleaf

   Narrowermegasporophyllmicrosporophyll

Other forms of sporophyll

plural

sporophylls·

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 sporophyll

What does sporophyll mean?

sporophyll means "leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia".

How many syllables are in sporophyll?

sporophyll has 3 syllables: spo-ro-phyll. The stress falls on "spo".

What is another word for sporophyll?

Close synonyms include sporophyl. 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 sporophyll a common word?

sporophyll 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.