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CRONARTIUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns

Synonyms:

Cronartium; genus Cronartium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Cronartium"):

blister rust; Cronartium ribicola (fungus causing white pine blister rust and having a complex life cycle requiring a plant of genus Ribes as alternate host)

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

family Melampsoraceae; Melampsoraceae (rust fungi)

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