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acaroid |
acaroid resin |
acarophobia |
acarpellous |
acarpelous |
acarpous
| acarus
| acaryote
| acatalectic
| acatalepsy
| acataleptic
acarpous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective acarpous has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
acarpous, a. [Gr. ; 'a priv. + fruit.].
Not producing fruit; unfruitful. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
acarpous, adj. Bot. (of a plant etc.) without fruit or that does not produce fruit.
Etymology
A-(1) + Gk karpos fruit
ROGET THESAURUS
acarpous
Unproductiveness
N unproductiveness, infertility, sterility, infecundity, masturbation, impotence, unprofitableness, waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness, unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund, sine prole, fallow, teemless, issueless, fruitless, unprofitable, null and void, of no effect.
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