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myco-heterotrophy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
my-co-heterotro-phy
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis.

Uncountable

Etymology

From myco- + heterotrophy.

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Inflected Forms

mycoheterotrophy (alternative)

Questions

What does myco-heterotrophy mean?
A symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis.
Where does myco-heterotrophy come from?
From myco- + heterotrophy.

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