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    LEAK FUNGUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Fungus causing soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables and rings of dry rot around roots of sweet potatoesplay

    Synonyms:

    leak fungus; Rhizopus stolonifer; ring rot fungus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("leak fungus" is a kind of...):

    rhizoid (any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc)

    Holonyms ("leak fungus" is a member of...):

    genus Rhizopus (a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids)

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