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oomycotes

oomycotes is the plural of oomycote.

Meaning of oomycote

Noun

oomycote (plural oomycotes)

  1. Any of a group of filamentous protists variously classified as the phylum Oomycota or the class Oomycetes in a more broadly circumscribed phylum.
    • Marine oomycotes are eukaryotic mycelial decomposers that have swimming, biflagellate propagules and lie in the Kingdom Chromista (or Protoctista), phylum Oomycota.2007, M.P. Weinstein, Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology, page 163
    Synonyms:
    water mould, water mold

Questions about oomycotes

What is oomycotes the plural of?
Oomycotes is the plural of oomycote.

Words near oomycotes in the dictionary

  1. oomyceticidal
  2. oomycetous
  3. oomycide
  4. oomycides
  5. oomycote
  6. oomycotes
  7. oon
  8. Oona
  9. Oonagh
  10. Oonah
  11. oonopid

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