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FAMILY ASPERGILLACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of fungi including some common molds
Synonyms:
Aspergillaceae; family Aspergillaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Aspergillaceae" is a kind of...):
fungus family (includes lichen families)
Meronyms (members of "family Aspergillaceae"):
Aspergillus; genus Aspergillus (genus of common molds causing food spoilage and some pathogenic to plants and animals)
genus Thielavia; Thielavia (genus of fungi having spherical brown perithecia and some conidia borne in chains; cause root rot)
Holonyms ("family Aspergillaceae" is a member of...):
Aspergillales; Eurotiales; order Aspergillales; order Eurotiales (order of fungi having a closed ascocarp (cleistothecium) with the asci scattered rather than gathered in a hymenium)