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-mycetes

  1. a combining form meaning “mushrooms, fungi,†used in the formation of taxonomic names of fungi, especially classes:

    Myxomycetes.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of -mycetes1

< New Latin < Greek ³¾²â°ìé³Ù±ð²õ, plural of ³¾Ã½°ìŧ²õ mushroom + -ism
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"There are two classes of organism in water - the cyano bacteria, which is commonly known as blue/ green algae, and actino mycetes, which are responsible for the damp or earth smell."

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HOWLER, a name applied to the members of a group of tropical American monkeys, now known scientifically as Alouata, although formerly designated Mycetes.

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Mycetes, mī-sē′tēz, n. a kind of South American monkey, called also Howlers.

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Mycetes, mī-sē′tēz, n.pl. mushrooms or fungi.—ns.

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The Howling Monkeys form the single genus of the second sub-family of the Cebidæ—the genus Mycetes.

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