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    MUCORACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Large family of chiefly saprophytic fungi that includes many common molds destructive to food productsplay

    Synonyms:

    family Mucoraceae; Mucoraceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Mucoraceae" is a kind of...):

    fungus family (includes lichen families)

    Meronyms (members of "Mucoraceae"):

    genus Mucor (type genus of the Mucoraceae; genus of molds having cylindrical or pear-shaped sporangia not limited in location to points where rhizoids develop)

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

    Holonyms ("Mucoraceae" is a member of...):

    Mucorales; order Mucorales (an order of mostly saprophytic fungi)

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