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TILLETIA

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Meaning:

A genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae

Synonyms:

genus Tilletia; Tilletia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Tilletia"):

bunt; Tilletia caries (fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores)

bunt; stinking smut; Tilletia foetida (similar to Tilletia caries)

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

family Tilletiaceae; Tilletiaceae (a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster)

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