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ASCOMYCOTINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ascomycotina mean? 

ASCOMYCOTINA (noun)
  The noun ASCOMYCOTINA has 1 sense:

1. 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 Fungiplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ASCOMYCOTINA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ascomycota; Ascomycotina; subdivision Ascomycota; subdivision Ascomycotina

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

division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)

Meronyms (members of "Ascomycotina"):

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

order Tuberales; Tuberales (small order of fungi belonging to the subdivision Ascomycota having closed underground ascocarps)

sac fungus (any of various ascomycetous fungi in which the spores are formed in a sac or ascus)

Ascomycetes; class Ascomycetes (large class of higher fungi coextensive with division Ascomycota: sac fungi)

ascomycete; ascomycetous fungus (any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus)

class Hemiascomycetes; Hemiascomycetes (class of fungi in which no ascocarps are formed: yeasts and some plant parasites)

class Plectomycetes; Plectomycetes (class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a cleistothecium (it releases spores only on decay or disintegration))

class Pyrenomycetes; Pyrenomycetes (class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium; includes powdery mildews and ergot and Neurospora)

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

division Eumycota; Eumycota (true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi))


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