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RHIZOPUS STOLONIFER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Rhizopus stolonifer mean?
• RHIZOPUS STOLONIFER (noun)
The noun RHIZOPUS STOLONIFER has 1 sense:
1. fungus causing soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables and rings of dry rot around roots of sweet potatoes
Familiarity information: RHIZOPUS STOLONIFER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fungus causing soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables and rings of dry rot around roots of sweet potatoes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
leak fungus; Rhizopus stolonifer; ring rot fungus
Hypernyms ("Rhizopus stolonifer" is a kind of...):
rhizoid (any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc)
Holonyms ("Rhizopus stolonifer" is a member of...):
genus Rhizopus (a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids)
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