gymnosporangium

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   genus of fungi that produce galls on cedars and other conifers of genera Juniperus and Libocedrus and causes rust spots on apples and pears and other plants of family Rosaceae

   Synonymsgenus Gymnosporangium

   Broaderfungus genus

   Part ofPucciniaceae

Other forms of gymnosporangium

plural

gymnosporangiums·

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 gymnosporangium

What does gymnosporangium mean?

gymnosporangium means "genus of fungi that produce galls on cedars and other conifers of genera Juniperus and Libocedrus and causes rust spots on apples and pears and other plants of family Rosaceae".

How many syllables are in gymnosporangium?

gymnosporangium has 6 syllables: gym-no-spo-ran-gi-um. The stress falls on "ran".

What is another word for gymnosporangium?

Close synonyms include genus Gymnosporangium. 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 gymnosporangium a common word?

gymnosporangium 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.