GENUS PELLICULARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pellicularia mean? 

• GENUS PELLICULARIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS PELLICULARIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of fungi having the hymenium in the form of a crust; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia

  Familiarity information: GENUS PELLICULARIA used as a noun is very rare.

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• GENUS PELLICULARIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of fungi having the hymenium in the form of a crust; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pellicularia; Pellicularia

Hypernyms ("genus Pellicularia" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Pellicularia"):

Pellicularia filamentosa; potato fungus; Rhizoctinia solani (fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers)

coffee fungus; Pellicularia koleroga (fungus causing a disease in coffee and some other tropical plants)

Holonyms ("genus Pellicularia" is a member of...):

family Thelephoraceae; Thelephoraceae (fungi having leathery or membranous sporophores)