basidiomycetous

1. 1.

   pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes

   botany

Questions about basidiomycetous

What does basidiomycetous mean?

basidiomycetous means "pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes".

How many syllables are in basidiomycetous?

basidiomycetous has 7 syllables and divides as ba-si-di-o-my-ce-tous 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.

Is basidiomycetous a common word?

basidiomycetous 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.