ascomycete

Other forms of ascomycete

plural

ascomycetes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ascomycete

What does ascomycete mean?

ascomycete means "any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus".

How many syllables are in ascomycete?

ascomycete has 4 syllables: a-sco-my-cete. The stress falls on "sco".

What is another word for ascomycete?

Close synonyms include ascomycetous fungus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ascomycete a common word?

ascomycete is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.