ALBUGINACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Albuginaceae mean? 

• ALBUGINACEAE (noun)
  The noun ALBUGINACEAE has 1 sense:

1. fungi that produce white sori resembling blisters on certain flowering plants

  Familiarity information: ALBUGINACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALBUGINACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fungi that produce white sori resembling blisters on certain flowering plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Albuginaceae; family Albuginaceae

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Albuginaceae"):

Albugo; genus Albugo (type genus of the Albuginaceae; fungi causing white rusts)

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

order Peronosporales; Peronosporales (order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi: Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae)