FAMILY TILLETIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Tilletiaceae mean? 

• FAMILY TILLETIACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY TILLETIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster

  Familiarity information: FAMILY TILLETIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY TILLETIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Tilletiaceae; Tilletiaceae

Hypernyms ("family Tilletiaceae" is a kind of...):

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "family Tilletiaceae"):

genus Tilletia; Tilletia (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)

genus Urocystis; Urocystis (a genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)

Holonyms ("family Tilletiaceae" is a member of...):

order Ustilaginales; Ustilaginales (parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes)