Macrophoma

noun

Mac·​ro·​phoma

¦makrə+

in some classifications

: a genus of imperfect fungi with large pycniospores that is now usually included in Sphaeropsis

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from macr- + Phoma

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Rhymes for Macrophoma

• ambystoma
• atheroma
• carcinoma
• coloboma
• granuloma
• haematoma
• hamartoma
• hemangioma
• hematoma
• hepatoma
• hybridoma
• melanoma