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HETEROBASIDIOMYCETES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Heterobasidiomycetes mean?
• HETEROBASIDIOMYCETES (noun)
The noun HETEROBASIDIOMYCETES has 1 sense:
1. category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including rusts and smuts
Familiarity information: HETEROBASIDIOMYCETES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including rusts and smuts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Heterobasidiomycetes; subclass Heterobasidiomycetes
Hypernyms ("Heterobasidiomycetes" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Holonyms ("Heterobasidiomycetes" is a member of...):
Basidiomycetes; class Basidiomycetes (large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota)
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