mastigomycota

Questions about mastigomycota

What does mastigomycota mean?

mastigomycota means "fungi in which the spores and gametes are motile; in some systems placed in the Phycomycetes group with the Zygomycota".

How many syllables are in mastigomycota?

mastigomycota has 6 syllables and divides as ma-sti-go-my-co-ta 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 mastigomycota?

Close synonyms include subdivision Mastigomycota, Mastigomycotina, subdivision Mastigomycotina. 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 mastigomycota a common word?

mastigomycota 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.