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apertura

noun

apertura is a noun meaning “The dehiscence of anthers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-P-E-R-T-U-R-A, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of apertura is aperturae.

What does apertura mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The dehiscence of anthers.

  2. 2

    The ostiole of certain fungi.

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

Forms of apertura

  • aperturae plural

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

How common is apertura?

Apertura appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).

Where does apertura come from?

Learned borrowing from Latin apertūra. Doublet of aperture and overture.

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