EUMYCOTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eumycota mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EUMYCOTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

division Eumycota; Eumycota

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Eumycota"):

subdivision Zygomycota; subdivision Zygomycotina; Zygomycota; Zygomycotina (division of fungi having sexually produced zygospores)

Mastigomycota; Mastigomycotina; subdivision Mastigomycota; subdivision Mastigomycotina (fungi in which the spores and gametes are motile; in some systems placed in the Phycomycetes group with the Zygomycota)

class Eumycetes; Eumycetes (category used in some classifications: coextensive with division Eumycota)

true fungus (any of numerous fungi of the division Eumycota)

Deuteromycota; Deuteromycotina; Fungi imperfecti; subdivision Deuteromycota; subdivision Deuteromycotina (large and heterogeneous form division of fungi comprising forms for which no sexually reproductive stage is known)

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)

Ascomycota; Ascomycotina; subdivision Ascomycota; subdivision Ascomycotina (a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes; sac fungi; in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi)

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

Fungi; fungus kingdom; kingdom Fungi (the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants)