pyrenomycetes

1. 1.

   class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium; includes powdery mildews and ergot and Neurospora

   Synonymsclass Pyrenomycetes

   Broaderclass

   Part ofAscomycota

Other forms of pyrenomycetes

plural

pyrenomyceteses·

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 pyrenomycetes

What does pyrenomycetes mean?

pyrenomycetes means "class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium; includes powdery mildews and ergot and Neurospora".

How many syllables are in pyrenomycetes?

pyrenomycetes has 5 syllables: pyre-no-my-ce-tes. The stress falls on "my".

What is another word for pyrenomycetes?

Close synonyms include class Pyrenomycetes. 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 pyrenomycetes a common word?

pyrenomycetes 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.