OOMYCETES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Oomycetes mean? 

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

1. nonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores; sometimes classified as protoctists

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OOMYCETES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores; sometimes classified as protoctists

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Oomycetes; Oomycetes

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Oomycetes"):

order Saprolegniales; Saprolegniales (order of chiefly aquatic fungi)

order Peronosporales; Peronosporales (order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi: Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae)

family Plasmodiophoraceae; Plasmodiophoraceae (family of fungi often causing hypertrophy in seed plants)

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

Mastigomycota; Mastigomycotina; subdivision Mastigomycota; subdivision Mastigomycotina (fungi in which the spores and gametes are motile; in some systems placed in the Phycomycetes group with the Zygomycota)