septobasidium

Questions about septobasidium

What does septobasidium mean?

septobasidium means "type genus of Septobasidiaceae: smooth shelf fungi usually having a well-developed sometimes thick-walled hypobasidium".

How many syllables are in septobasidium?

septobasidium has 6 syllables and divides as sep-to-ba-si-di-um 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 septobasidium?

Close synonyms include genus Septobasidium. 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 septobasidium a common word?

septobasidium 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.