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PELLICULARIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pellicularia mean?
• PELLICULARIA (noun)
The noun PELLICULARIA has 1 sense:
1. genus of fungi having the hymenium in the form of a crust; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia
Familiarity information: PELLICULARIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of fungi having the hymenium in the form of a crust; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Pellicularia; Pellicularia
Hypernyms ("Pellicularia" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Meronyms (members of "Pellicularia"):
Pellicularia filamentosa; potato fungus; Rhizoctinia solani (fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers)
coffee fungus; Pellicularia koleroga (fungus causing a disease in coffee and some other tropical plants)
Holonyms ("Pellicularia" is a member of...):
family Thelephoraceae; Thelephoraceae (fungi having leathery or membranous sporophores)
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