saprolegnia

Questions about saprolegnia

What does saprolegnia mean?

saprolegnia means "aquatic fungi growing chiefly on plant debris and animal remains".

How many syllables are in saprolegnia?

saprolegnia has 5 syllables and divides as sa-pro-leg-ni-a 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 saprolegnia?

Close synonyms include genus Saprolegnia. 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 saprolegnia a common word?

saprolegnia 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.