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BASIDIOMYCOTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Basidiomycota mean? 

BASIDIOMYCOTA (noun)
  The noun BASIDIOMYCOTA has 1 sense:

1. comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungiplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BASIDIOMYCOTA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Basidiomycota; Basidiomycotina; subdivision Basidiomycota; subdivision Basidiomycotina

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

division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)

Meronyms (members of "Basidiomycota"):

Basidiomycetes; class Basidiomycetes (large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota)

class Hymenomycetes; Hymenomycetes (used in some classifications; usually coextensive with order Agaricales: mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi)

Agaricales; order Agaricales (typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota)

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

Aphyllophorales; order Aphyllophorales (includes chiefly saprophytic fungi typically with shelflike bodies; sometimes placed in class Hymenomycetes or included in Agaricales)

class Tiliomycetes; Tiliomycetes (category used in some systems to comprise the two orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts))

order Ustilaginales; Ustilaginales (parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes)

family Septobasidiaceae; Septobasidiaceae (a family of fungi belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota)

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

division Eumycota; Eumycota (true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi))


 Context examples 


A genus of fungi in the phylum Basidiomycota that grows in culture as an encapsulated yeast.

(Cryptococcus, NCI Thesaurus)



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