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CHYTRIDIALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chytridiales mean? 

CHYTRIDIALES (noun)
  The noun CHYTRIDIALES has 1 sense:

1. simple aquatic fungi mostly saprophytic but some parasitic on higher plants or animals or fresh water fungi; sometimes placed in class Oomycetesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CHYTRIDIALES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Simple aquatic fungi mostly saprophytic but some parasitic on higher plants or animals or fresh water fungi; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chytridiales; order Chytridiales

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

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "Chytridiales"):

Chytridiaceae; family Chytridiaceae (a family of aquatic fungi of order Chytridiales)

family Synchytriaceae; Synchytriaceae (a fungus family of order Chytridiales)

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

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


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