KINGDOM FUNGI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kingdom Fungi mean? 

• KINGDOM FUNGI (noun)
  The noun KINGDOM FUNGI has 1 sense:

1. the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants

  Familiarity information: KINGDOM FUNGI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KINGDOM FUNGI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Fungi; fungus kingdom; kingdom Fungi

Hypernyms ("kingdom Fungi" is a kind of...):

kingdom (the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia)

Meronyms (members of "kingdom Fungi"):

fungus family (includes lichen families)

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

fungus order (the order of fungi)

division Gymnomycota; division Myxomycota; Gymnomycota; Myxomycota (slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista)

Phycomycetes; Phycomycetes group (a large and probably unnatural group of fungi and funguslike organisms comprising the Mastigomycota (including the Oomycetes) and Zygomycota subdivisions of the division Eumycota; a category not used in all systems)

division Lichenes; Lichenes (comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae; sometimes treated as an independent group more or less coordinate with algae and fungi)

fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)

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

Domain member category:

Tremella reticulata (a jelly fungus with an erect whitish fruiting body and a highly variable shape (sometimes resembling coral fungi))

annulus; skirt ((Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar)

saprophytic ((of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter)