sphaeriales

1. 1.

   large order of ascomycetous fungi usually having a dark hard perithecia with definite ostioles; in more recent classifications often divided among several orders

   Synonymsorder Sphaeriales

   Broaderfungus order

   Part ofPyrenomycetes

Other forms of sphaeriales

plural

sphaerialeses·

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 sphaeriales

What does sphaeriales mean?

sphaeriales means "large order of ascomycetous fungi usually having a dark hard perithecia with definite ostioles; in more recent classifications often divided among several orders".

How many syllables are in sphaeriales?

sphaeriales has 4 syllables: spha-e-ria-les. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for sphaeriales?

Close synonyms include order Sphaeriales. 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 sphaeriales a common word?

sphaeriales 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.