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HYPOCREACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of fungi having brightly colored fleshy or membranous ascocarps; sometimes placed in its own order Hypocreales
Synonyms:
family Hypocreaceae; Hypocreaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Hypocreaceae" is a kind of...):
fungus family (includes lichen families)
Meronyms (members of "Hypocreaceae"):
Claviceps; genus Claviceps (fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Hypocreaceae"):
mushroom pimple (any of various fungi of the family Hypocreaceae)
Holonyms ("Hypocreaceae" is a member of...):
order Sphaeriales; Sphaeriales (large order of ascomycetous fungi usually having a dark hard perithecia with definite ostioles; in more recent classifications often divided among several orders)
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