GENUS VERTICILLIUM

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Meaning:

Genus of imperfect fungi having conidia borne singly at the apex of whorled branchlets; cause wilt diseases

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Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Verticillium"):

verticillium (a fungus of the genus Verticillium)

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

Moniliales; order Moniliales (order of imperfect fungi lacking conidiophores of having conidiophores that are superficial and not enclosed in a pycnidium)

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