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CLASS GASTROMYCETES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi
Synonyms:
class Gasteromycetes; class Gastromycetes; Gasteromycetes; Gastromycetes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("class Gastromycetes" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "class Gastromycetes"):
order Sclerodermatales; Sclerodermatales (an order of fungi having a peridium surrounding a gleba (sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes))
Hymenogastrales; order Hymenogastrales (an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes; has a distinct basidiocarp with a fleshy or waxy gleba (sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes))
gasteromycete; gastromycete (any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes)
order Phallales; Phallales (order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)
order Tulostomatales; Tulostomatales (an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes)
Lycoperdales; order Lycoperdales (small order of basidiomycetous fungi having fleshy often globose fruiting bodies; includes puffballs and earthstars)
Nidulariales; order Nidulariales (small order of basidiomycetous fungi comprising families Nidulariaceae and Sphaerobolaceae)
order Secotiales; Secotiales (an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes)
Holonyms ("class Gastromycetes" is a member of...):
Basidiomycota; Basidiomycotina; subdivision Basidiomycota; subdivision Basidiomycotina (comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi)
