basidiomycetes

Questions about basidiomycetes

What does basidiomycetes mean?

basidiomycetes means "large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota".

How many syllables are in basidiomycetes?

basidiomycetes has 6 syllables and divides as ba-si-dio-my-ce-tes under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for basidiomycetes?

Close synonyms include class Basidiomycetes. 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 basidiomycetes a common word?

basidiomycetes 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.