Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subapocarpous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sub-apoc-ar-pous
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the carpels partially joined.

Example Sentences

"Flowers often irregular; disc usually annular, adnate to the stamens or reduced to glands, rarely absent; ovary multicarpellary, syncarpous or subapocarpous; ovules one to two, rarely numerous in each carpel, ascending or pendulous; raphe usually ventral."
"Apocarpous fruits are the ancestral state in Acronychia and subapocarpous and fully syncarpous fruits are derived."

Etymology

From sub- + apocarpous.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: sub

Questions

What does subapocarpous mean?: Having the carpels partially joined.
Where does subapocarpous come from?: From sub- + apocarpous.

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