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mycoremediator

mycoremediator noun: any fungus used for mycoremediation.

Noun

mycoremediator (plural mycoremediators)

  1. Any fungus used for mycoremediation.
    • Till date fungi belonging to some major genera viz., Acremonium, Agrocybe, Alternaria, Aspergillus, Bjerkandera, Boletus, Candida, Cephalosporium, Cladosporium, Cordyceps, Doratomyces, Fusarium, Ganodrma, Geotrichum, Gliocladium, Hypholoma, Lecanicillium, Lentinus, Morierella, Mucor, Paecilomyces...2021, Gowhar Hamid Dar, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Mohammad Aneesul Mehmood, Freshwater Pollution and Aquatic Ecosystems, page 245
    • You have to think a little differently to grow mycoremediators compared to raising edible mushrooms for the dinner plate.2022, Anna Hess, Weekend Homesteader: Spring
  2. A person or company engaged in mycoremediation.
    • Q: What tips would you have for the grassroots mycoremediator?2013, Leila Darwish, Earth Repair, page 176
    • The challenges faced by mycoremediators' are analogous to thse faced by brewers— without suitable conditions, yeast will struggle to remediate the sugar in a barrel of grape juics into alcohol— except that the wine barrel is a contaminated ecosystem and we're inside it.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 206

Forms of mycoremediator

pluralmycoremediators

Origin of mycoremediator

By surface analysis, myco- + remediator, or, by surface analysis, mycoremediate + -or.

Questions about mycoremediator

What does mycoremediator mean?
Mycoremediator means any fungus used for mycoremediation.
What part of speech is mycoremediator?
Mycoremediator is a noun.
What is the plural of mycoremediator?
The plural of mycoremediator is mycoremediators.

Words near mycoremediator in the dictionary

  1. mycoremediated
  2. mycoremediates
  3. mycoremediating
  4. mycoremediation
  5. mycoremediations
  6. mycoremediator
  7. mycoremediators
  8. mycoreovirus
  9. mycoreoviruses
  10. mycorestoration
  11. mycorhiza

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