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MELAMPSORACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Rust fungi

Synonyms:

family Melampsoraceae; Melampsoraceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Melampsoraceae"):

genus Melampsora; Melampsora (rusts having sessile one-celled teliospores in a single layer)

Cronartium; genus Cronartium (rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns)

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

order Uredinales; Uredinales (rust fungi: parasitic fungi causing rust in plants; sometimes placed in)

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