basidiomycete

Other forms of basidiomycete

plural

basidiomycetes·

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 basidiomycete

What does basidiomycete mean?

basidiomycete means "any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota".

How many syllables are in basidiomycete?

basidiomycete has 6 syllables: ba-si-di-o-my-cete. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for basidiomycete?

Close synonyms include basidiomycetous fungi. 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 basidiomycete a common word?

basidiomycete 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.