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    CHYTRIDIOMYCETES

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A class of mostly aquatic fungi; saprophytic or parasitic on algae or fungi or plantsplay

    Synonyms:

    Chytridiomycetes; class Chytridiomycetes

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

    Meronyms (members of "Chytridiomycetes"):

    Chytridiales; order Chytridiales (simple aquatic fungi mostly saprophytic but some parasitic on higher plants or animals or fresh water fungi; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes)

    Blastocladiales; order Blastocladiales (fungi that carry out asexual reproduction by thick-walled resting spores that produce zoospores upon germination; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes)

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

    Mastigomycota; Mastigomycotina; subdivision Mastigomycota; subdivision Mastigomycotina (fungi in which the spores and gametes are motile; in some systems placed in the Phycomycetes group with the Zygomycota)

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