GASTROMYCETES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gastromycetes mean? 

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

1. fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASTROMYCETES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Gasteromycetes; class Gastromycetes; Gasteromycetes; Gastromycetes

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

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Gastromycetes"):

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

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))

gasteromycete; gastromycete (any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes)

order Phallales; Phallales (order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)

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

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

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

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

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

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)