saprolegniales

English Thesaurus

1. order of chiefly aquatic fungi (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fungus order,
definition	:	the order of fungi (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	genus saprolegnia, saprolegnia,
definition	:	aquatic fungi growing chiefly on plant debris and animal remains (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)