family tilletiaceae

English Thesaurus

1. a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fungus family,
definition	:	includes lichen families (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	genus tilletia, tilletia,
definition	:	a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	genus urocystis, urocystis,
definition	:	a genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	order ustilaginales, ustilaginales,
definition	:	parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes (noun.plant)