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ORDER APHYLLOPHORALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Includes chiefly saprophytic fungi typically with shelflike bodies; sometimes placed in class Hymenomycetes or included in Agaricales
Synonyms:
Aphyllophorales; order Aphyllophorales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("order Aphyllophorales" is a kind of...):
fungus order (the order of fungi)
Meronyms (members of "order Aphyllophorales"):
family Polyporaceae; Polyporaceae (fungi that become corky or woody with age, often forming shelflike growths on trees)
family Fistulinaceae; Fistulinaceae (a family of fungi closely related to the family Polyporaceae except that the tubes on the undersurface of the cap are separate from each other)
Holonyms ("order Aphyllophorales" 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)
