syncarpous

1. 1.

   (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels

   Antonymsapocarpous

   plant

Questions about syncarpous

What does syncarpous mean?

syncarpous means "(of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels".

How many syllables are in syncarpous?

syncarpous has 3 syllables and divides as syn-car-pous 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 the opposite of syncarpous?

The recorded antonyms are apocarpous.

Is syncarpous a common word?

syncarpous 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.