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MUCORACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large family of chiefly saprophytic fungi that includes many common molds destructive to food products

Synonyms:

family Mucoraceae; Mucoraceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Mucoraceae"):

genus Mucor (type genus of the Mucoraceae; genus of molds having cylindrical or pear-shaped sporangia not limited in location to points where rhizoids develop)

genus Rhizopus (a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids)

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

Mucorales; order Mucorales (an order of mostly saprophytic fungi)

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