Chytridiomycota
plural noun
Chy·trid·i·o·my·co·ta kī-ˌtri-dē-ō-mī-ˈkō-tə 
kə-
: a phylum of fungi comprising the chytrids
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from New Latin, probably from Chytridiomycetes, class name proposed earlier (from Chytridium, genus name + -o- -o- + -mycetes -mycetes) + -ota -ota
Note: Probably introduced by the Swiss-born mycologist Josef Adolf von Arx in Pilzkunde (Lehre: J. Cramer, 1967), p. 15.
First Known Use
1967, in the meaning defined above
- basket flower
- basket grass
- basket hilt
- Basket Maker
- basket mast
- basket meeting
- basket oak
- basket osier
- basket phaeton
- basket plant
- basket press
- basket rummy
- basket salt
- basket shell
- basket sponge
- basket star
- basket weave
- basket whelk
- basket willow
- basket-fired
- basket-handle arch
- basket-hilted
- basket-of-gold
- basketball
- basketballer