PERONOSPORALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Peronosporales mean? 

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

1. order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi: Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERONOSPORALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi: Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Peronosporales; Peronosporales

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

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "Peronosporales"):

family Peronosporaceae; Peronosporaceae (parasitic fungi: downy mildews)

Albuginaceae; family Albuginaceae (fungi that produce white sori resembling blisters on certain flowering plants)

family Pythiaceae; Pythiaceae (fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores)

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

class Oomycetes; Oomycetes (nonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores; sometimes classified as protoctists)