acarpous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: a=car=pous

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.