MONILIALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Moniliales mean? 

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

1. order of imperfect fungi lacking conidiophores of having conidiophores that are superficial and not enclosed in a pycnidium

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONILIALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Order of imperfect fungi lacking conidiophores of having conidiophores that are superficial and not enclosed in a pycnidium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Moniliales; order Moniliales

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

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "Moniliales"):

genus Verticillium (genus of imperfect fungi having conidia borne singly at the apex of whorled branchlets; cause wilt diseases)

family Moniliaceae; Moniliaceae (family of imperfect fungi having white or brightly colored hyphae and spores that are produced directly on the mycelium and not aggregated in fruiting bodies)

genus Candida (a genus of yeastlike imperfect fungi; sometimes included in genus Monilia of the family Moniliaceae)

Blastomyces; genus Blastomyces (genus of pathogenic yeastlike fungi)

Dematiaceae; family Dematiaceae (family of imperfect mushrooms having dark-colored hyphae or conidia)

family Tuberculariaceae; Tuberculariaceae (large family of mainly saprophytic imperfect fungi)

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

Deuteromycota; Deuteromycotina; Fungi imperfecti; subdivision Deuteromycota; subdivision Deuteromycotina (large and heterogeneous form division of fungi comprising forms for which no sexually reproductive stage is known)