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    GENUS TILLETIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Tilletia; Tilletia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Tilletia"):

    bunt; Tilletia caries (fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores)

    bunt; stinking smut; Tilletia foetida (similar to Tilletia caries)

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

    family Tilletiaceae; Tilletiaceae (a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster)

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