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PLECTOMYCETES

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a cleistothecium (it releases spores only on decay or disintegration)

Synonyms:

class Plectomycetes; Plectomycetes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Plectomycetes"):

Aspergillales; Eurotiales; order Aspergillales; order Eurotiales (order of fungi having a closed ascocarp (cleistothecium) with the asci scattered rather than gathered in a hymenium)

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

Ascomycota; Ascomycotina; subdivision Ascomycota; subdivision Ascomycotina (a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes; sac fungi; in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi)

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