TILIOMYCETES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tiliomycetes mean? 

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

1. category used in some systems to comprise the two orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TILIOMYCETES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Category used in some systems to comprise the two orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Tiliomycetes; Tiliomycetes

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

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

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

Basidiomycota; Basidiomycotina; subdivision Basidiomycota; subdivision Basidiomycotina (comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi)