GENUS PYTHIUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Destructive root-parasitic fungi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Pythium" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Pythium"):

pythium (any fungus of the genus Pythium)

Holonyms ("genus Pythium" is a member of...):

family Pythiaceae; Pythiaceae (fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores)

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