PHYTOPHTHORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phytophthora mean? 

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

1. destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYTOPHTHORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Phytophthora; Phytophthora

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Phytophthora"):

Phytophthora citrophthora (causes brown rot gummosis in citrus fruits)

Phytophthora infestans (fungus causing late blight in solanaceous plants especially tomatoes and potatoes)

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

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

 Context examples 

Researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge compared how two distantly related plants – a common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) and a flowering plant, wild tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) – defend themselves against an aggressive pathogen (Phytophthora palmivora).

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)