ORDER SAPROLEGNIALES

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Order of chiefly aquatic fungi

Synonyms:

order Saprolegniales; Saprolegniales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("order Saprolegniales" is a kind of...):

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "order Saprolegniales"):

genus Saprolegnia; Saprolegnia (aquatic fungi growing chiefly on plant debris and animal remains)

Holonyms ("order Saprolegniales" is a member of...):

class Oomycetes; Oomycetes (nonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores; sometimes classified as protoctists)