Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

haustorium

/hɔˈstɔ.ɹi.əm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: haus-to-ri-um
IPA: /hɔˈstɔ.ɹi.əm/

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A root of a parasitic plant modified to take nourishment from its host.

noun

A cellular structure, growing into or around another structure to absorb water or nutrients, such as a cotyledon.

Example Sentences

"In the substomatal chamber all the signals that regulate the interaction between fungus and host are present along the entire structure of the rust fungus, from the vesicle to the first haustorium which, in the dikaryotic stage, is the first intracellular structure (Mendgen et al., 1988; Heath, 1989, 1995)."

Etymology

From Latin haustor (“drainer”) + -ium.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: haustor
Suffix: ium

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /hɔˈstɔ.ɹi.əm/
British English: /hɔːˈstɔː.ɹi.əm/

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

haustoria (plural)

Derived Forms

prehaustorium

Questions

How do you pronounce haustorium?: The recorded pronunciation is /hɔˈstɔ.ɹi.əm/.
What does haustorium mean?: A root of a parasitic plant modified to take nourishment from its host.
Where does haustorium come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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