APHYLLOPHORALES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aphyllophorales mean? 

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

1. includes chiefly saprophytic fungi typically with shelflike bodies; sometimes placed in class Hymenomycetes or included in Agaricales

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• APHYLLOPHORALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Includes chiefly saprophytic fungi typically with shelflike bodies; sometimes placed in class Hymenomycetes or included in Agaricales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aphyllophorales; order Aphyllophorales

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

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "Aphyllophorales"):

family Polyporaceae; Polyporaceae (fungi that become corky or woody with age, often forming shelflike growths on trees)

family Fistulinaceae; Fistulinaceae (a family of fungi closely related to the family Polyporaceae except that the tubes on the undersurface of the cap are separate from each other)

Holonyms ("Aphyllophorales" 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)