cyanophyceae

Questions about cyanophyceae

What does cyanophyceae mean?

cyanophyceae means "photosynthetic bacteria found in fresh and salt water, having chlorophyll a and phycobilins; once thought to be algae: blue-green algae".

How many syllables are in cyanophyceae?

cyanophyceae has 5 syllables and divides as cya-no-phy-ce-ae 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 cyanophyceae?

Close synonyms include class Cyanobacteria, class Cyanophyceae. 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 cyanophyceae a common word?

cyanophyceae 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.