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    CLASS PYRENOMYCETES

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium; includes powdery mildews and ergot and Neurosporaplay

    Synonyms:

    class Pyrenomycetes; Pyrenomycetes

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("class Pyrenomycetes" is a kind of...):

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

    Meronyms (members of "class 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 ("class 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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