cronartium

1. 1.

   rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns

   Synonymsgenus Cronartium

   Broaderfungus genus

   Part ofMelampsoraceae

Other forms of cronartium

plural

cronartiums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cronartium

What does cronartium mean?

cronartium means "rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns".

How many syllables are in cronartium?

cronartium has 4 syllables: cro-nar-ti-um. The stress falls on "nar".

What is another word for cronartium?

Close synonyms include genus Cronartium. 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 cronartium a common word?

cronartium 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.