SECOTIALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Secotiales mean? 

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

1. an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECOTIALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Secotiales; Secotiales

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

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "Secotiales"):

family Secotiaceae; Secotiaceae (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)

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

class Gasteromycetes; class Gastromycetes; Gasteromycetes; Gastromycetes (fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi)