Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

myco-heterotroph

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: my-co-heterotroph
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A plant that gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis.

Etymology

From myco- + heterotroph.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: myco

Inflected Forms

myco-heterotrophs (plural)

Phrases

myco-heterotrophy myco-heterotrophic

Questions

What does myco-heterotroph mean?: A plant that gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis.
Where does myco-heterotroph come from?: From myco- + heterotroph.

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