CLASS HEMIASCOMYCETES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does class Hemiascomycetes mean? 

• CLASS HEMIASCOMYCETES (noun)
  The noun CLASS HEMIASCOMYCETES has 1 sense:

1. class of fungi in which no ascocarps are formed: yeasts and some plant parasites

  Familiarity information: CLASS HEMIASCOMYCETES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLASS HEMIASCOMYCETES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Class of fungi in which no ascocarps are formed: yeasts and some plant parasites

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Hemiascomycetes; Hemiascomycetes

Hypernyms ("class Hemiascomycetes" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "class Hemiascomycetes"):

Endomycetales; order Endomycetales (fungi having a zygote or a single cell developing directly into an ascus)

Holonyms ("class Hemiascomycetes" 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)