cryptophyte

Questions about cryptophyte

What does cryptophyte mean?

cryptophyte means "common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms".

How many syllables are in cryptophyte?

cryptophyte has 3 syllables and divides as cryp-to-phyte 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 cryptophyte?

Close synonyms include cryptomonad. 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 cryptophyte a common word?

cryptophyte 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.