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GENUS PYTHIUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pythium mean?
• GENUS PYTHIUM (noun)
The noun GENUS PYTHIUM has 1 sense:
1. destructive root-parasitic fungi
Familiarity information: GENUS PYTHIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Destructive root-parasitic fungi
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Pythium" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pythium"):
pythium (any fungus of the genus Pythium)
Holonyms ("genus Pythium" is a member of...):
family Pythiaceae; Pythiaceae (fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores)
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