GENUS CANDIDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Candida mean? 

• GENUS CANDIDA (noun)
  The noun GENUS CANDIDA has 1 sense:

1. a genus of yeastlike imperfect fungi; sometimes included in genus Monilia of the family Moniliaceae

  Familiarity information: GENUS CANDIDA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CANDIDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of yeastlike imperfect fungi; sometimes included in genus Monilia of the family Moniliaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Candida" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Candida"):

candida (any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida)

Candida albicans; Monilia albicans (a parasitic fungus that can infect the mouth or the skin or the intestines or the vagina)

Holonyms ("genus Candida" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

A species of yeast in the genus Candida.

(Candida parapsilosis, NCI Thesaurus)