leptosporangiate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having sporangia that were each formed from a single epidermal cell; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of ferns of this kind.
noun
Such a fern
Example Sentences
- "[…]which being leptosporangiate cannot be closely related to Isoetes, the sporangia appear late in the history of the leaf."
- "In fact, it seems that in the Primary rocks the distinctive Leptosporangiate annulus was at least rare, if it existed at all."
- "Most of his material, which includes a variety of leptosporangiate species, was obtained from greenhouses."
Etymology
From lepto- + sporangiate.
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Phrases
leptosporangiate fern