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CLASS CHYTRIDIOMYCETES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A class of mostly aquatic fungi; saprophytic or parasitic on algae or fungi or plants
Synonyms:
Chytridiomycetes; class Chytridiomycetes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("class Chytridiomycetes" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "class Chytridiomycetes"):
Chytridiales; order Chytridiales (simple aquatic fungi mostly saprophytic but some parasitic on higher plants or animals or fresh water fungi; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes)
Blastocladiales; order Blastocladiales (fungi that carry out asexual reproduction by thick-walled resting spores that produce zoospores upon germination; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes)
Holonyms ("class Chytridiomycetes" is a member of...):
Mastigomycota; Mastigomycotina; subdivision Mastigomycota; subdivision Mastigomycotina (fungi in which the spores and gametes are motile; in some systems placed in the Phycomycetes group with the Zygomycota)
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