PYTHIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pythiaceae mean? 

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

1. fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PYTHIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Pythiaceae; Pythiaceae

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Pythiaceae"):

genus Pythium (destructive root-parasitic fungi)

genus Phytophthora; Phytophthora (destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants)

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

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