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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
pythiaceae is a noun meaning "fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores". It carries one recorded sense.
fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pythiaceae come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.