ustilaginoidea

Questions about ustilaginoidea

What does ustilaginoidea mean?

ustilaginoidea means "genus of imperfect fungi causing plant diseases like smut".

How many syllables are in ustilaginoidea?

ustilaginoidea has 7 syllables and divides as u-sti-la-gi-no-i-dea 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 ustilaginoidea?

Close synonyms include genus Ustilaginoidea. 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 ustilaginoidea a common word?

ustilaginoidea 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.