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PLECTOMYCETES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a cleistothecium (it releases spores only on decay or disintegration)
Synonyms:
class Plectomycetes; Plectomycetes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Plectomycetes" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "Plectomycetes"):
Aspergillales; Eurotiales; order Aspergillales; order Eurotiales (order of fungi having a closed ascocarp (cleistothecium) with the asci scattered rather than gathered in a hymenium)
Holonyms ("Plectomycetes" is a member of...):
Ascomycota; Ascomycotina; subdivision Ascomycota; subdivision Ascomycotina (a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes; sac fungi; in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi)
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