NIDULARIALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nidulariales mean? 

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

1. small order of basidiomycetous fungi comprising families Nidulariaceae and Sphaerobolaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NIDULARIALES (noun)

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Meaning:

Small order of basidiomycetous fungi comprising families Nidulariaceae and Sphaerobolaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Nidulariales; order Nidulariales

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

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "Nidulariales"):

family Nidulariaceae; Nidulariaceae (bird's-nest fungi)

family Sphaerobolaceae; Sphaerobolaceae (monotypic family of fungi in which the more or less spherical gleba is forcibly ejected at maturity)

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

class Gasteromycetes; class Gastromycetes; Gasteromycetes; Gastromycetes (fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi)