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BASIDIOMYCETES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota
Synonyms:
Basidiomycetes; class Basidiomycetes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Basidiomycetes" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "Basidiomycetes"):
Homobasidiomycetes; subclass Homobasidiomycetes (category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including e.g. mushrooms and puffballs which are usually placed in the classes Gasteromycetes and Hymenomycetes)
Heterobasidiomycetes; subclass Heterobasidiomycetes (category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including rusts and smuts)
basidiomycete; basidiomycetous fungi (any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota)
order Tremellales; Tremellales (fungi varying from gelatinous to waxy or even horny in texture; most are saprophytic)
Auriculariales; order Auriculariales (coextensive with the family Auriculariaceae; sometimes included in the order Tremellales)
order Uredinales; Uredinales (rust fungi: parasitic fungi causing rust in plants; sometimes placed in)
Holonyms ("Basidiomycetes" 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)
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