TUBERALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tuberales mean? 

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

1. small order of fungi belonging to the subdivision Ascomycota having closed underground ascocarps

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUBERALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small order of fungi belonging to the subdivision Ascomycota having closed underground ascocarps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Tuberales; Tuberales

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

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "Tuberales"):

family Tuberaceae; Tuberaceae (family of fungi whose ascocarps resemble tubers and vary in size from that of an acorn to that of a large apple)

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

Ascomycota; Ascomycotina; subdivision Ascomycota; subdivision Ascomycotina (a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes; sac fungi; in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi)