BASIDIOMYCETES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Basidiomycetes mean? 

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

1. large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASIDIOMYCETES (noun)

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Meaning:

Large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Basidiomycetes; class Basidiomycetes

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Basidiomycetes"):

Homobasidiomycetes; subclass Homobasidiomycetes (category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including e.g. mushrooms and puffballs which are usually placed in the classes Gasteromycetes and Hymenomycetes)

Heterobasidiomycetes; subclass Heterobasidiomycetes (category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including rusts and smuts)

basidiomycete; basidiomycetous fungi (any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota)

order Tremellales; Tremellales (fungi varying from gelatinous to waxy or even horny in texture; most are saprophytic)

Auriculariales; order Auriculariales (coextensive with the family Auriculariaceae; sometimes included in the order Tremellales)

order Uredinales; Uredinales (rust fungi: parasitic fungi causing rust in plants; sometimes placed in)

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

Basidiomycota; Basidiomycotina; subdivision Basidiomycota; subdivision Basidiomycotina (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 Fungi)