gastromycetes
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1. fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | class, |
definition | : | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders (noun.group) |
member holonym | : | hymenogastrales, order hymenogastrales, |
definition | : | an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes; has a distinct basidiocarp with a fleshy or waxy gleba (sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes) (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | order phallales, phallales, |
definition | : | order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | lycoperdales, order lycoperdales, |
definition | : | small order of basidiomycetous fungi having fleshy often globose fruiting bodies; includes puffballs and earthstars (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | nidulariales, order nidulariales, |
definition | : | small order of basidiomycetous fungi comprising families Nidulariaceae and Sphaerobolaceae (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | basidiomycota, basidiomycotina, subdivision basidiomycota, subdivision basidiomycotina, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
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