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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 potatoesplay

  Familiarity information: RHIZOPUS STOLONIFER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RHIZOPUS STOLONIFER (noun)


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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