SAPROLEGNIALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saprolegniales mean? 

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

1. order of chiefly aquatic fungi

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAPROLEGNIALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Order of chiefly aquatic fungi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Saprolegniales; Saprolegniales

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

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "Saprolegniales"):

genus Saprolegnia; Saprolegnia (aquatic fungi growing chiefly on plant debris and animal remains)

Holonyms ("Saprolegniales" is a member of...):

class Oomycetes; Oomycetes (nonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores; sometimes classified as protoctists)