SCLEROTINIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sclerotiniaceae mean? 

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

1. a fungus family of order Helotiales

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCLEROTINIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fungus family of order Helotiales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Sclerotiniaceae; Sclerotiniaceae

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Sclerotiniaceae"):

genus Sclerotinia (large genus of ascomycetous fungi including various destructive plant pathogens)

brown cup (a variety of sclerotinia)

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

Helotiales; order Helotiales (order of fungi having asci in a disk-shaped to goblet-shaped apothecium)