heterokontae

Questions about heterokontae

What does heterokontae mean?

heterokontae means "all the yellow-green algae having flagella of unequal length".

How many syllables are in heterokontae?

heterokontae has 5 syllables and divides as he-te-ro-kon-tae 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 heterokontae?

Close synonyms include Chrysophyceae, class Chrysophyceae, class Heterokontae. 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 heterokontae a common word?

heterokontae 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.