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RUST FUNGUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants

Synonyms:

rust; rust fungus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("rust fungus" is a kind of...):

fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)

Meronyms (parts of "rust fungus"):

aecium (fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores)

aeciospore (spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium)

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

flax rust; flax rust fungus; Melampsora lini (fungus causing flax rust)

blister rust; Cronartium ribicola (fungus causing white pine blister rust and having a complex life cycle requiring a plant of genus Ribes as alternate host)

Puccinia graminis; wheat rust (rust fungus that attacks wheat)

apple rust; cedar-apple rust; Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae (rust fungus causing rust spots on apples and pears etc)

Holonyms ("rust fungus" is a member of...):

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

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