SECOTIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Secotiaceae mean? 

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

1. a family of fungi that have a stalk and cap and a wrinkled mass of tissue (the gleba) where spores are produced; are often dismissed as misshapen forms of other fungi

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECOTIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of fungi that have a stalk and cap and a wrinkled mass of tissue (the gleba) where spores are produced; are often dismissed as misshapen forms of other fungi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Secotiaceae; Secotiaceae

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Secotiaceae"):

Gastrocybe; genus Gastrocybe (a genus of fungi of the family Secotiaceae)

genus Macowanites; Macowanites (a stout-stemmed genus of fungus belonging to the family Secotiaceae having fruiting bodies that never expand completely)

Gastroboletus; genus Gastroboletus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium)

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

order Secotiales; Secotiales (an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes)