Term
androecium
Say androecium out loud and the o in the middle disappears. Four syllables go in and three come out. The spellings below are mostly attempts to write down a word with a hole in it.
Greek aner, man, has the stem andr-, and oikos, house, follows it. The stress lands on the second syllable, an-DREE-, which swallows the o of andro- almost completely. That missing o is where most of the trouble starts.
- Say
- an-DREE-see-um
- Letters
- A-N-D-R-O-E-C-I-U-M
- Root
- Greek aner, andros, man, plus oikos, house
- Meaning
- The androecium is all the stamens of a flower taken together, filament and anther, the pollen-bearing half of the flower.
13 spellings people arrive at by ear
- androesiuma soft c
- andreecumtwo changes at once
- andreesiumtwo changes at once
- andrecumtwo changes at once
- andreciuma Latin vowel pair
- andreeciuma Latin vowel pair
- androecumthe ending
- androekumtwo changes at once
- andraeciuman unstressed vowel
- androeceumthe ending
- andreceumtwo changes at once
- andresiumtwo changes at once
- andreeceumtwo changes at once