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Is aecium a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word aecium is a Scrabble US word. The word aecium is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is aecium a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word aecium is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

AECIUM,

5-letter words (2 found)

AMICE,UMIAC,

4-letter words (9 found)

ACME,AMIE,CAME,CAMI,CAUM,EMIC,MACE,MICA,MICE,

3-letter words (18 found)

ACE,AIM,AME,AMI,AMU,AUE,CAM,CUE,CUM,EAU,ECU,EMU,ICE,MAC,MAE,MEU,MIC,UME,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AI,AM,EA,EM,MA,ME,MI,MU,UM,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 41 words from aecium according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of aecium

aecium

Alternative forms

  • æcium

Etymology

From New Latin aecium, from Ancient Greek αἰκίᾱ (aikíā, “injury, insult”). However Merriam-Webster relates that aecium is a back-formation from aecidium and is not related to the Greek αἰκίᾱ (aikíā). The word aecium was "introduced as a substitute for aecidium by the Purdue University plant pathologist J. C. Arthur (1850–1942) in an effort to reform terminology for rust fungi; see Terminology of the Spore-Structures in the Uredinales, Botanical Gazette, vol. 39 (Mar., 1905), pp. 219-22."

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈiːs.i.əm/

Noun

aecium (plural aecia or aeciums)

  1. (mycology) A cuplike fruiting structure of some parasitic rust fungi that contains chains of aeciospores.
    • 1932 August, Ralph Ulysses Cotter, Factors Affecting the Development of the Aecial Stage of Puccinia Graminis, US Dept of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 314, page 29,
      The writer therefore made observations to determine the conditions under which the aecia open and discharge spores most readily.

Related terms

  • aecial
  • aecidium

See also

  • pycnium

References

  • “aecium”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “aecium”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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