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-mycete

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  1. a combining form meaning “mushroom, fungus,” taken as the singular of the plural taxonomic combining form -mycetes.
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British Dictionary definitions for -mycete

-mycete

n combining form
  1. indicating a fungusascomycete
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Word Origin

from New Latin -mycetes, from Greek mukētes, plural of mukēs fungus
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-mycete in Medicine

-mycete

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  1. Fungus:actinomycete.
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