FAMILY MELAMPSORACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Melampsoraceae mean? 

• FAMILY MELAMPSORACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY MELAMPSORACEAE has 1 sense:

1. rust fungi

  Familiarity information: FAMILY MELAMPSORACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY MELAMPSORACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rust fungi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Melampsoraceae; Melampsoraceae

Hypernyms ("family Melampsoraceae" is a kind of...):

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "family Melampsoraceae"):

genus Melampsora; Melampsora (rusts having sessile one-celled teliospores in a single layer)

Cronartium; genus Cronartium (rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns)

Holonyms ("family Melampsoraceae" is a member of...):

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