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| zy·go·my·cete [ zgə m st ] (plural zy·go·my·cetes) |
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bread mold or related fungus: a fungus, e.g. bread mold, that lives on organic matter or as a parasite. Class Zygomycetes.
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| [Late 19th century. < modern Latin Zygomycetes< Greek zugon "yolk, pair" (see zygo-) + mukēt- stem of mukēs "fungus"] |
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