PEZIZACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pezizaceae mean? 

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

1. large family comprising many typical cup fungi

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEZIZACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large family comprising many typical cup fungi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Pezizaceae; Pezizaceae

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Pezizaceae"):

genus Peziza; Peziza (type genus of the Pezizaceae: a variety of cup fungus)

genus Plectania; Plectania (genus of fungi in the family Pezizaceae closely related to and often included in genus Peziza)

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

order Pezizales; Pezizales (order of mostly saprophytic fungi having cup-shaped ascocarps)