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HYPOCREACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Family of fungi having brightly colored fleshy or membranous ascocarps; sometimes placed in its own order Hypocreales

Synonyms:

family Hypocreaceae; Hypocreaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Hypocreaceae"):

Claviceps; genus Claviceps (fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Hypocreaceae"):

mushroom pimple (any of various fungi of the family Hypocreaceae)

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

order Sphaeriales; Sphaeriales (large order of ascomycetous fungi usually having a dark hard perithecia with definite ostioles; in more recent classifications often divided among several orders)

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