chlorococcales

Questions about chlorococcales

What does chlorococcales mean?

chlorococcales means "unicellular green algae that reproduce by spores".

How many syllables are in chlorococcales?

chlorococcales has 4 syllables and divides as chloro-coc-ca-les 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 chlorococcales?

Close synonyms include order Chlorococcales. 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 chlorococcales a common word?

chlorococcales 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.