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FAMILY PLASMODIOPHORACEAE

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Meaning:

Family of fungi often causing hypertrophy in seed plants

Synonyms:

family Plasmodiophoraceae; Plasmodiophoraceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("family Plasmodiophoraceae" is a kind of...):

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "family Plasmodiophoraceae"):

genus Plasmodiophora; Plasmodiophora (type genus of Plasmodiophoraceae comprising minute plant parasitic fungi similar to and sometimes included among the slime molds)

Holonyms ("family Plasmodiophoraceae" is a member of...):

class Oomycetes; Oomycetes (nonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores; sometimes classified as protoctists)

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