USTILAGINALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ustilaginales mean? 

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

1. parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• USTILAGINALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Ustilaginales; Ustilaginales

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

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "Ustilaginales"):

smut; smut fungus (any fungus of the order Ustilaginales)

family Ustilaginaceae; Ustilaginaceae (a fungus family of loose smuts)

family Tilletiaceae; Tilletiaceae (a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster)

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

Basidiomycota; Basidiomycotina; subdivision Basidiomycota; subdivision Basidiomycotina (comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi)