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    RHIZOPUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of various rot causing fungi of the genus Rhizopusplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    mold; mould (a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rhizopus"):

    bread mold; Rhizopus nigricans (a mold of the genus Rhizopus)

    Holonyms ("rhizopus" 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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