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GENUS CANDIDA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of yeastlike imperfect fungi; sometimes included in genus Monilia of the family Moniliaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Candida" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Meronyms (members of "genus Candida"):
candida (any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida)
Candida albicans; Monilia albicans (a parasitic fungus that can infect the mouth or the skin or the intestines or the vagina)
Holonyms ("genus Candida" 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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