phytophthora

1. 1.

   destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants

   Synonymsgenus Phytophthora

   Broaderfungus genus

   Part ofPythiaceae

Other forms of phytophthora

plural

phytophthoras·

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 phytophthora

What does phytophthora mean?

phytophthora means "destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants".

How many syllables are in phytophthora?

phytophthora has 4 syllables: phy-toph-tho-ra. The stress falls on "toph".

What is another word for phytophthora?

Close synonyms include genus Phytophthora. 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 phytophthora a common word?

phytophthora 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.