Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zygomycosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: zy-gomy-co-sis
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An infection caused by bread mold fungi.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Zygomycota (“obsolete phylum of fungi”) + -osis.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Zygomycota

Usage

Inflected Forms

zygomycoses (plural)

Questions

What does zygomycosis mean?: An infection caused by bread mold fungi.
Where does zygomycosis come from?: From Zygomycota (“obsolete phylum of fungi”) + -osis.

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