TUBERCULARIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tuberculariaceae mean? 

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

1. large family of mainly saprophytic imperfect fungi

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

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• TUBERCULARIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large family of mainly saprophytic imperfect fungi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Tuberculariaceae; Tuberculariaceae

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Tuberculariaceae"):

genus Tubercularia; Tubercularia (type genus of the Tuberculariaceae; fungi with nodules of red or pink conidia; some cause diebacks of woody plants)

genus Fusarium (a form genus of mostly plant parasites some of which cause dry rot; in humans a species can cause inflammation of cornea leading to blindness)

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

Moniliales; order Moniliales (order of imperfect fungi lacking conidiophores of having conidiophores that are superficial and not enclosed in a pycnidium)