basidiosporous

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia

   botany

Questions about basidiosporous

What does basidiosporous mean?

basidiosporous means "of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia".

How many syllables are in basidiosporous?

basidiosporous has 6 syllables and divides as ba-si-di-o-spo-rous 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 basidiosporous a common word?

basidiosporous 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.