oidium
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The fungus Erysiphe necator (= Uncinula necator), which produces powdery mildew in grapes.
Example Sentences
- "• Oidia are hyaline, small and thin-walled unicellular sections or fragments of the mycelium. • Oidia may be uni- or binucleate as whether they are produced by the breaking up of the primary or secondary mycelium."
- "However, in some forms mainly some Hymenomycetes it occurs by the formation of oidia. The oidia are of two main types."
- "Later the pods become covered completely with white powdery mass composed of mycelium, oidiophores and oidia of the fungus."