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PLASMODIOPHORACEAE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Family of fungi often causing hypertrophy in seed plants
Synonyms:
family Plasmodiophoraceae; Plasmodiophoraceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Plasmodiophoraceae" is a kind of...):
fungus family (includes lichen families)
Meronyms (members of "Plasmodiophoraceae"):
genus Plasmodiophora; Plasmodiophora (type genus of Plasmodiophoraceae comprising minute plant parasitic fungi similar to and sometimes included among the slime molds)
Holonyms ("Plasmodiophoraceae" is a member of...):
class Oomycetes; Oomycetes (nonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores; sometimes classified as protoctists)