acarpous
[ey-kahr-puh s]
- not producing fruit; sterile; barren.
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Origin of acarpous
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Related Words for acarpous
arid, barren, effete, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless, wasted, acarpous, infecund, unrewardingacarpous
- (of plants) producing no fruit
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Word Origin for acarpous
from Greek akarpos, from a- 1 + karpos fruit
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