RHIZOPUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhizopus mean? 

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

1. any of various rot causing fungi of the genus Rhizopus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHIZOPUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various rot causing fungi of the genus Rhizopus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

mold; mould (a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rhizopus"):

bread mold; Rhizopus nigricans (a mold of the genus Rhizopus)

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

genus Rhizopus (a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids)