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UROCYSTIS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae

Synonyms:

genus Urocystis; Urocystis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Urocystis"):

flag smut fungus (a smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores)

Holonyms ("Urocystis" 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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