aspergillales

1. 1.

   order of fungi having a closed ascocarp (cleistothecium) with the asci scattered rather than gathered in a hymenium

   SynonymsEurotialesorder Eurotialesorder Aspergillales

   Broaderfungus order

   Part ofPlectomycetes

Other forms of aspergillales

plural

aspergillaleses·

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 aspergillales

What does aspergillales mean?

aspergillales means "order of fungi having a closed ascocarp (cleistothecium) with the asci scattered rather than gathered in a hymenium".

How many syllables are in aspergillales?

aspergillales has 4 syllables: a-sper-gil-lales. The stress falls on "sper".

What is another word for aspergillales?

Close synonyms include Eurotiales, order Eurotiales, order Aspergillales. 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 aspergillales a common word?

aspergillales 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.