ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌmīˈsēd.(ˌ)ēz noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from phyc- + -mycetes
: a large class of fungi having a plant body that ranges from an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm to a well-developed and much-branched coenocytic mycelium in which septations commonly occur in age or where reproductive structures develop and having reproduction that is mainly asexual by the formation of conidia or sporangia but includes every form of transition from this method through simple conjugation to sexual reproduction by the union of egg and sperm in the higher forms — see oomycetes , zygomycetes
• phy·co·my·ce·tous | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷|sēd.əs adjective