| acarpous | (adjective) producing no fruit | - |
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| acrocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem | - |
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| amphitropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk | - |
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| anatropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: inverted |
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| angiocarpous | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpic |
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| apocarpous | (adjective) (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses | - |
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| ascocarpous | (adjective) of or relating to ascocarps | - |
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| campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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| espousal | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, acceptation, adoption |
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| (noun) archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast | Synonyms: bridal |
| (noun) the act of becoming betrothed or engaged | Synonyms: betrothal |
| espouse | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, embrace, sweep up |
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| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, follow |
| (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed |
| isotropous | (adjective) invariant with respect to direction | Synonyms: isotropic |
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| orthotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely straight with the micropyle at the apex | - |
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| pleurocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches | - |
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| pompous | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: ceremonious |
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| (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous |
| pompously | (adverb) in a pompous manner | - |
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| pompousness | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
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| spousal | (adjective) relating to a spouse | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a wedding | Synonyms: bridal, nuptial |
| spouse | (noun) a person's partner in marriage | Synonyms: better half, married person, mate, partner |
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| syncarpous | (adjective) (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels | - |
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| unpompous | (adjective) not pompous | - |
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