PEZIZALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pezizales mean? 

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

1. order of mostly saprophytic fungi having cup-shaped ascocarps

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEZIZALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Order of mostly saprophytic fungi having cup-shaped ascocarps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Pezizales; Pezizales

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

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "Pezizales"):

family Pezizaceae; Pezizaceae (large family comprising many typical cup fungi)

family Sarcoscyphaceae; Sarcoscyphaceae (family of fungi belonging to the order Pezizales)

family Helvellaceae; Helvellaceae (family of false morels or lorchels; some are edible and some are poisonous)

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

Discomycetes; subclass Discomycetes (a large and taxonomically difficult group of Ascomycetes in which the fleshy fruiting body is disklike or cup-shaped)