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MUCORACEAE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large family of chiefly saprophytic fungi that includes many common molds destructive to food products
Synonyms:
family Mucoraceae; Mucoraceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Mucoraceae" is a kind of...):
fungus family (includes lichen families)
Meronyms (members of "Mucoraceae"):
genus Mucor (type genus of the Mucoraceae; genus of molds having cylindrical or pear-shaped sporangia not limited in location to points where rhizoids develop)
genus Rhizopus (a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids)
Holonyms ("Mucoraceae" is a member of...):
Mucorales; order Mucorales (an order of mostly saprophytic fungi)
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