ORDER HYMENOGASTRALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Hymenogastrales mean? 

• ORDER HYMENOGASTRALES (noun)
  The noun ORDER HYMENOGASTRALES has 1 sense:

1. an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes; has a distinct basidiocarp with a fleshy or waxy gleba (sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)

  Familiarity information: ORDER HYMENOGASTRALES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER HYMENOGASTRALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes; has a distinct basidiocarp with a fleshy or waxy gleba (sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Hymenogastrales; order Hymenogastrales

Hypernyms ("order Hymenogastrales" is a kind of...):

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "order Hymenogastrales"):

family Rhizopogonaceae; Rhizopogonaceae (a family of fungi of order Hymenogastrales having round subterranean sporophores)

Holonyms ("order Hymenogastrales" 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)