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HEMIASCOMYCETES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Hemiascomycetes mean?
• HEMIASCOMYCETES (noun)
The noun HEMIASCOMYCETES has 1 sense:
1. class of fungi in which no ascocarps are formed: yeasts and some plant parasites
Familiarity information: HEMIASCOMYCETES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Class of fungi in which no ascocarps are formed: yeasts and some plant parasites
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
class Hemiascomycetes; Hemiascomycetes
Hypernyms ("Hemiascomycetes" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "Hemiascomycetes"):
Endomycetales; order Endomycetales (fungi having a zygote or a single cell developing directly into an ascus)
Holonyms ("Hemiascomycetes" is a member of...):
Ascomycota; Ascomycotina; subdivision Ascomycota; subdivision Ascomycotina (a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes; sac fungi; in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi)
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