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USTILAGINALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes
Synonyms:
order Ustilaginales; Ustilaginales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Ustilaginales" is a kind of...):
fungus order (the order of fungi)
Meronyms (members of "Ustilaginales"):
smut; smut fungus (any fungus of the order Ustilaginales)
family Ustilaginaceae; Ustilaginaceae (a fungus family of loose smuts)
family Tilletiaceae; Tilletiaceae (a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster)
Holonyms ("Ustilaginales" 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)
