ASCOMYCETES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ascomycetes mean? 

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

1. large class of higher fungi coextensive with division Ascomycota: sac fungi

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASCOMYCETES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large class of higher fungi coextensive with division Ascomycota: sac fungi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ascomycetes; class Ascomycetes

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Ascomycetes"):

Euascomycetes; subclass Euascomycetes (category not used in many classification systems)

Discomycetes; subclass Discomycetes (a large and taxonomically difficult group of Ascomycetes in which the fleshy fruiting body is disklike or cup-shaped)

family Morchellaceae; Morchellaceae (a family of edible fungi including the true morels)

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

Ascomycota; Ascomycotina; subdivision Ascomycota; subdivision Ascomycotina (a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes; sac fungi; in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi)