family plasmodiophoraceae

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1. family of fungi often causing hypertrophy in seed plants (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	genus plasmodiophora, plasmodiophora,
definition	:	type genus of Plasmodiophoraceae comprising minute plant parasitic fungi similar to and sometimes included among the slime molds (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	class oomycetes, oomycetes,
definition	:	nonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores; sometimes classified as protoctists (noun.plant)