-mycete
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Fungus:
真菌类：
basidiomycete.
子菌
语源
- New Latin -mycētēs
现代拉丁语 -mycētēs - from Greek mukēs mukēt- [fungus]
源自 希腊语 mukēs mukēt- [真菌]
-mycete
combining form in countable noun
indicating a fungus
⇒
ascomycete
Origin
from New Latin -mycetes, from Greek mukētes, plural of mukēs fungus-mycete
1
a combining form meaning “mushroom, fungus,” taken as the singular of the plural taxonomic combining form -mycetes.
Related Words
- actinomycete
- ascomycete
- basidiomycete
- deuteromycete
- discomycete
- myxomycete
-my·cete
\ˈmīˌsēt, ˌmī|sēt, usu -ēd.+V\ noun combining form
(-s)
Etymology: New Latin -mycetes
: fungus
< micromycete >
< micromycete >
-mycete-mycetes
Suffix
- biology Used primarily in mycology to form words used for categorising fungi based on their evolutionary origin, life-history, growth-form or ecological preferences.
Etymology
From New Latin Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom, fungus, mushroom-shaped objects”)