CLAVICIPITACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Clavicipitaceae mean? 

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

1. any of various mushrooms of the class Ascomycetes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLAVICIPITACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various mushrooms of the class Ascomycetes

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Clavicipitaceae; grainy club mushrooms

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Clavicipitaceae"):

grainy club (a variety of grainy club mushrooms)