BLASTOCLADIALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Blastocladiales mean? 

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

1. fungi that carry out asexual reproduction by thick-walled resting spores that produce zoospores upon germination; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLASTOCLADIALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fungi that carry out asexual reproduction by thick-walled resting spores that produce zoospores upon germination; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Blastocladiales; order Blastocladiales

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

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "Blastocladiales"):

Blastodiaceae; family Blastodiaceae (a family of saprobic fungi of order Blastocladiales)

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

Chytridiomycetes; class Chytridiomycetes (a class of mostly aquatic fungi; saprophytic or parasitic on algae or fungi or plants)