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carpophore

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
car-pophore
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A thin stalk that raises the pistil above the stamens in some plants.

noun

The stem of the fruiting body in higher fungi.

Etymology

From carpo- + -phore.

Word Breakdown

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

carpophores (plural)

Questions

What does carpophore mean?
A thin stalk that raises the pistil above the stamens in some plants.
Where does carpophore come from?
From carpo- + -phore.

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