Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous fungi of the division Zygomycota, characterized by a sexual phase of the life cycle during which specialized hyphae fuse to form a zygospore, and including various food molds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a fungus belonging to the group Zygomycetes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology An organism of the
phylum Zygomycota .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[zygo– (in reference to the formation of the zygospore) : –mycete.]
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Examples
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Pilobolus (crystallinus) is a phototropic zygomycete - a sun-loving fungus that grows in barnyards and pastures.
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Pilobolus (crystallinus) is a phototropic zygomycete - a sun-loving fungus that grows in barnyards and pastures.
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This is the first study utilizing ultra-high-speed video cameras to capture the events of spore discharge in ascomycete and zygomycete fungi.
MicrobiologyBytes 2008
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