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CHYTRIDIOMYCETES

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A class of mostly aquatic fungi; saprophytic or parasitic on algae or fungi or plants

Synonyms:

Chytridiomycetes; class Chytridiomycetes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Chytridiomycetes" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Chytridiomycetes"):

Chytridiales; order Chytridiales (simple aquatic fungi mostly saprophytic but some parasitic on higher plants or animals or fresh water fungi; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes)

Blastocladiales; order Blastocladiales (fungi that carry out asexual reproduction by thick-walled resting spores that produce zoospores upon germination; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes)

Holonyms ("Chytridiomycetes" is a member of...):

Mastigomycota; Mastigomycotina; subdivision Mastigomycota; subdivision Mastigomycotina (fungi in which the spores and gametes are motile; in some systems placed in the Phycomycetes group with the Zygomycota)

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