basidiomycota

Questions about basidiomycota

What does basidiomycota mean?

basidiomycota means "comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi".

How many syllables are in basidiomycota?

basidiomycota has 7 syllables and divides as ba-si-di-o-my-co-ta 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 basidiomycota?

Close synonyms include subdivision Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycotina. 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 basidiomycota a common word?

basidiomycota 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.