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ORDER SCLERODERMATALES

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An order of fungi having a peridium surrounding a gleba (sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)

Synonyms:

order Sclerodermatales; Sclerodermatales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("order Sclerodermatales" is a kind of...):

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "order Sclerodermatales"):

family Sclerodermataceae; Sclerodermataceae (a family of fungi or order Sclerodermatales with a single-layered peridium; includes earthballs)

family Tulostomaceae; family Tulostomataceae; Tulostomaceae; Tulostomataceae (stalked puffballs)

Holonyms ("order Sclerodermatales" is a member of...):

class Gasteromycetes; class Gastromycetes; Gasteromycetes; Gastromycetes (fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi)

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