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GENUS TILLETIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Tilletia mean?
• GENUS TILLETIA (noun)
The noun GENUS TILLETIA has 1 sense:
1. a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae
Familiarity information: GENUS TILLETIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Tilletia; Tilletia
Hypernyms ("genus Tilletia" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Meronyms (members of "genus Tilletia"):
bunt; Tilletia caries (fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores)
bunt; stinking smut; Tilletia foetida (similar to Tilletia caries)
Holonyms ("genus Tilletia" is a member of...):
family Tilletiaceae; Tilletiaceae (a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster)
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