FUNGUS ORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fungus order mean? 

• FUNGUS ORDER (noun)
  The noun FUNGUS ORDER has 1 sense:

1. the order of fungi

  Familiarity information: FUNGUS ORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNGUS ORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The order of fungi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fungus order" is a kind of...):

order ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fungus order"):

order Sphaeriales; Sphaeriales (large order of ascomycetous fungi usually having a dark hard perithecia with definite ostioles; in more recent classifications often divided among several orders)

Mycelia Sterilia; order Mycelia Sterilia (order of imperfect fungi having no known spore stage)

Moniliales; order Moniliales (order of imperfect fungi lacking conidiophores of having conidiophores that are superficial and not enclosed in a pycnidium)

order Ustilaginales; Ustilaginales (parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes)

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

Auriculariales; order Auriculariales (coextensive with the family Auriculariaceae; sometimes included in the order Tremellales)

order Tremellales; Tremellales (fungi varying from gelatinous to waxy or even horny in texture; most are saprophytic)

Aphyllophorales; order Aphyllophorales (includes chiefly saprophytic fungi typically with shelflike bodies; sometimes placed in class Hymenomycetes or included in Agaricales)

order Secotiales; Secotiales (an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes)

Nidulariales; order Nidulariales (small order of basidiomycetous fungi comprising families Nidulariaceae and Sphaerobolaceae)

Lycoperdales; order Lycoperdales (small order of basidiomycetous fungi having fleshy often globose fruiting bodies; includes puffballs and earthstars)

order Tulostomatales; Tulostomatales (an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes)

order Pezizales; Pezizales (order of mostly saprophytic fungi having cup-shaped ascocarps)

Aspergillales; Eurotiales; order Aspergillales; order Eurotiales (order of fungi having a closed ascocarp (cleistothecium) with the asci scattered rather than gathered in a hymenium)

Endomycetales; order Endomycetales (fungi having a zygote or a single cell developing directly into an ascus)

Agaricales; order Agaricales (typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota)

Lechanorales; order Lechanorales (category used in some classification systems for all lichens that produce apothecia)

Lichenales; order Lichenales (category used especially in former classifications for organisms now constituting the division Lichenes)

order Tuberales; Tuberales (small order of fungi belonging to the subdivision Ascomycota having closed underground ascocarps)

order Peronosporales; Peronosporales (order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi: Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae)

order Saprolegniales; Saprolegniales (order of chiefly aquatic fungi)

Blastocladiales; order Blastocladiales (fungi that carry out asexual reproduction by thick-walled resting spores that produce zoospores upon germination; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes)

Chytridiales; order Chytridiales (simple aquatic fungi mostly saprophytic but some parasitic on higher plants or animals or fresh water fungi; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes)

Entomophthorales; order Entomophthorales (coextensive with the family Entomophthoraceae)

Mucorales; order Mucorales (an order of mostly saprophytic fungi)

Hymenogastrales; order Hymenogastrales (an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes; has a distinct basidiocarp with a fleshy or waxy gleba (sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes))

order Sclerodermatales; Sclerodermatales (an order of fungi having a peridium surrounding a gleba (sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes))

Helotiales; order Helotiales (order of fungi having asci in a disk-shaped to goblet-shaped apothecium)

Hypocreales; order Hypocreales (used in some classifications for the family Hypocreaceae)

Erysiphales; order Erysiphales (saprophytic and parasitic fungi that live on plants)

Holonyms ("fungus order" is a member of...):

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