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    SUBDIVISION BASIDIOMYCOTA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungiplay

    Synonyms:

    Basidiomycota; Basidiomycotina; subdivision Basidiomycota; subdivision Basidiomycotina

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("subdivision Basidiomycota" is a kind of...):

    division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)

    Meronyms (members of "subdivision Basidiomycota"):

    Basidiomycetes; class Basidiomycetes (large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota)

    class Hymenomycetes; Hymenomycetes (used in some classifications; usually coextensive with order Agaricales: mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi)

    Agaricales; order Agaricales (typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota)

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

    Aphyllophorales; order Aphyllophorales (includes chiefly saprophytic fungi typically with shelflike bodies; sometimes placed in class Hymenomycetes or included in Agaricales)

    class Tiliomycetes; Tiliomycetes (category used in some systems to comprise the two orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts))

    order Ustilaginales; Ustilaginales (parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes)

    family Septobasidiaceae; Septobasidiaceae (a family of fungi belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota)

    Holonyms ("subdivision Basidiomycota" is a member of...):

    division Eumycota; Eumycota (true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi))

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