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FAMILY TUBERCULARIACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large family of mainly saprophytic imperfect fungi
Synonyms:
family Tuberculariaceae; Tuberculariaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Tuberculariaceae" is a kind of...):
fungus family (includes lichen families)
Meronyms (members of "family Tuberculariaceae"):
genus Tubercularia; Tubercularia (type genus of the Tuberculariaceae; fungi with nodules of red or pink conidia; some cause diebacks of woody plants)
genus Fusarium (a form genus of mostly plant parasites some of which cause dry rot; in humans a species can cause inflammation of cornea leading to blindness)
Holonyms ("family Tuberculariaceae" is a member of...):
Moniliales; order Moniliales (order of imperfect fungi lacking conidiophores of having conidiophores that are superficial and not enclosed in a pycnidium)
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