FAMILY ASPERGILLACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Aspergillaceae mean? 

• FAMILY ASPERGILLACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY ASPERGILLACEAE has 1 sense:

1. family of fungi including some common molds

  Familiarity information: FAMILY ASPERGILLACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ASPERGILLACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Family of fungi including some common molds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aspergillaceae; family Aspergillaceae

Hypernyms ("family Aspergillaceae" is a kind of...):

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "family Aspergillaceae"):

Aspergillus; genus Aspergillus (genus of common molds causing food spoilage and some pathogenic to plants and animals)

genus Thielavia; Thielavia (genus of fungi having spherical brown perithecia and some conidia borne in chains; cause root rot)

Holonyms ("family Aspergillaceae" is a member of...):

Aspergillales; Eurotiales; order Aspergillales; order Eurotiales (order of fungi having a closed ascocarp (cleistothecium) with the asci scattered rather than gathered in a hymenium)