FAMILY PYTHIACEAE

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Meaning:

Fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores

Synonyms:

family Pythiaceae; Pythiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "family Pythiaceae"):

genus Pythium (destructive root-parasitic fungi)

genus Phytophthora; Phytophthora (destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants)

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

order Peronosporales; Peronosporales (order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi: Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae)