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FAMILY PYTHIACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Pythiaceae mean?
• FAMILY PYTHIACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY PYTHIACEAE has 1 sense:
1. fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores
Familiarity information: FAMILY PYTHIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Pythiaceae; Pythiaceae
Hypernyms ("family Pythiaceae" is a kind of...):
fungus family (includes lichen families)
Meronyms (members of "family Pythiaceae"):
genus Pythium (destructive root-parasitic fungi)
genus Phytophthora; Phytophthora (destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants)
Holonyms ("family Pythiaceae" is a member of...):
order Peronosporales; Peronosporales (order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi: Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae)
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