class oomycetes

1. 1.

   nonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores; sometimes classified as protoctists

   SynonymsOomycetes

   Broaderclass

   Part ofMastigomycota

Questions about class oomycetes

What does class oomycetes mean?

class oomycetes means "nonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores; sometimes classified as protoctists".

What is another word for class oomycetes?

Close synonyms include Oomycetes. 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 class oomycetes a common word?

class oomycetes 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.