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PYRENOMYCETES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium; includes powdery mildews and ergot and Neurospora
Synonyms:
class Pyrenomycetes; Pyrenomycetes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Pyrenomycetes" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "Pyrenomycetes"):
Erysiphales; order Erysiphales (saprophytic and parasitic fungi that live on plants)
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)
Hypocreales; order Hypocreales (used in some classifications for the family Hypocreaceae)
Holonyms ("Pyrenomycetes" 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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