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PUCCINIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pucciniaceae mean? 

PUCCINIACEAE (noun)
  The noun PUCCINIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. large important family of rust fungiplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PUCCINIACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large important family of rust fungi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Pucciniaceae; Pucciniaceae

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Pucciniaceae"):

genus Puccinia; Puccinia (type genus of the Pucciniaceae; a large genus of parasitic fungi including many that are destructive to various economic plants)

genus Gymnosporangium; Gymnosporangium (genus of fungi that produce galls on cedars and other conifers of genera Juniperus and Libocedrus and causes rust spots on apples and pears and other plants of family Rosaceae)

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

order Uredinales; Uredinales (rust fungi: parasitic fungi causing rust in plants; sometimes placed in)


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