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UROCYSTIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Urocystis mean?
• UROCYSTIS (noun)
The noun UROCYSTIS has 1 sense:
1. a genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae
Familiarity information: UROCYSTIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Urocystis; Urocystis
Hypernyms ("Urocystis" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Meronyms (members of "Urocystis"):
flag smut fungus (a smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores)
Holonyms ("Urocystis" is a member of...):
family Tilletiaceae; Tilletiaceae (a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster)
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