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actinomorphic

adjective

actinomorphic is an adjective meaning “Having its petals arranged in a radially symmetric fashion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-C-T-I-N-O-M-O-R-P-H-I-C, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does actinomorphic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Having its petals arranged in a radially symmetric fashion.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of actinomorphic

  • more actinomorphic comparative
  • most actinomorphic superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is actinomorphic?

Actinomorphic appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Actinomorphic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense having its petals arranged in a radially symmetric fashion:

LanguageWords
Frenchactinomorphe
Portugueseactinomorfo
Spanishactinomorfo

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does actinomorphic come from?

From actino- + -morphic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).