blastomyces

Questions about blastomyces

What does blastomyces mean?

blastomyces means "genus of pathogenic yeastlike fungi".

How many syllables are in blastomyces?

blastomyces has 3 syllables and divides as bla-stomy-ces 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 blastomyces?

Close synonyms include genus Blastomyces. 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 blastomyces a common word?

blastomyces 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.