PYRENOMYCETES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pyrenomycetes mean? 

• PYRENOMYCETES (noun)
  The noun PYRENOMYCETES has 1 sense:

1. class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium; includes powdery mildews and ergot and Neurospora

  Familiarity information: PYRENOMYCETES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PYRENOMYCETES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium; includes powdery mildews and ergot and Neurospora

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Pyrenomycetes; Pyrenomycetes

Hypernyms ("Pyrenomycetes" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Pyrenomycetes"):

Erysiphales; order Erysiphales (saprophytic and parasitic fungi that live on plants)

order Sphaeriales; Sphaeriales (large order of ascomycetous fungi usually having a dark hard perithecia with definite ostioles; in more recent classifications often divided among several orders)

Hypocreales; order Hypocreales (used in some classifications for the family Hypocreaceae)

Holonyms ("Pyrenomycetes" 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)