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    ASCOMYCOTINA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    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 Fungiplay

    Synonyms:

    Ascomycota; Ascomycotina; subdivision Ascomycota; subdivision Ascomycotina

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Ascomycotina" is a kind of...):

    division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)

    Meronyms (members of "Ascomycotina"):

    Helotiales; order Helotiales (order of fungi having asci in a disk-shaped to goblet-shaped apothecium)

    order Tuberales; Tuberales (small order of fungi belonging to the subdivision Ascomycota having closed underground ascocarps)

    sac fungus (any of various ascomycetous fungi in which the spores are formed in a sac or ascus)

    Ascomycetes; class Ascomycetes (large class of higher fungi coextensive with division Ascomycota: sac fungi)

    ascomycete; ascomycetous fungus (any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus)

    class Hemiascomycetes; Hemiascomycetes (class of fungi in which no ascocarps are formed: yeasts and some plant parasites)

    class Plectomycetes; Plectomycetes (class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a cleistothecium (it releases spores only on decay or disintegration))

    class Pyrenomycetes; Pyrenomycetes (class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium; includes powdery mildews and ergot and Neurospora)

    Holonyms ("Ascomycotina" is a member of...):

    division Eumycota; Eumycota (true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi))

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