Loading page
Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
sphaerobolaceae is a noun meaning "monotypic family of fungi in which the more or less spherical gleba is forcibly ejected at maturity". It carries one recorded sense.
monotypic family of fungi in which the more or less spherical gleba is forcibly ejected at maturity
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 sphaerobolaceae come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.