FAMILY TILLETIACEAE

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Meaning:

A family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster

Synonyms:

family Tilletiaceae; Tilletiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "family Tilletiaceae"):

genus Tilletia; Tilletia (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)

genus Urocystis; Urocystis (a genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)

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

order Ustilaginales; Ustilaginales (parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes)