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MELAMPSORACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Melampsoraceae mean?
• MELAMPSORACEAE (noun)
The noun MELAMPSORACEAE has 1 sense:
1. rust fungi
Familiarity information: MELAMPSORACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rust fungi
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Melampsoraceae; Melampsoraceae
Hypernyms ("Melampsoraceae" is a kind of...):
fungus family (includes lichen families)
Meronyms (members of "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 ("Melampsoraceae" is a member of...):
order Uredinales; Uredinales (rust fungi: parasitic fungi causing rust in plants; sometimes placed in)
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