GYMNOSPORANGIUM JUNIPERI-VIRGINIANAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Rust fungus causing rust spots on apples and pears etc

Synonyms:

apple rust; cedar-apple rust; Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae" is a kind of...):

rust; rust fungus (any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants)

Holonyms ("Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae" is a member of...):

genus Gymnosporangium; Gymnosporangium (genus of fungi that produce galls on cedars and other conifers of genera Juniperus and Libocedrus and causes rust spots on apples and pears and other plants of family Rosaceae)

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