CRONARTIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cronartium mean? 

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

1. rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRONARTIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cronartium; genus Cronartium

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Cronartium"):

blister rust; Cronartium ribicola (fungus causing white pine blister rust and having a complex life cycle requiring a plant of genus Ribes as alternate host)

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

family Melampsoraceae; Melampsoraceae (rust fungi)