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CARPOGONIUM
Definition of CARPOGONIUM
noun
The female organ in the red algae (Rhodophyta), having an elongated process which is the receptive organ for the male gametes
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From carpo- + -gonium.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CARPOGONIUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 72 days.
Built from these letters
CARPOGONIUM starts with C and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ACGIMNOOPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start CARPOGO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CARPOGONIUM?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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