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SECOTIALES

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes

Synonyms:

order Secotiales; Secotiales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "Secotiales"):

family Secotiaceae; Secotiaceae (a family of fungi that have a stalk and cap and a wrinkled mass of tissue (the gleba) where spores are produced; are often dismissed as misshapen forms of other fungi)

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

class Gasteromycetes; class Gastromycetes; Gasteromycetes; Gastromycetes (fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi)

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