ASCOMYCOTINA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Ascomycotina mean?
• ASCOMYCOTINA (noun)
The noun ASCOMYCOTINA has 1 sense:
1. a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes; sac fungi; in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi
Familiarity information: ASCOMYCOTINA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ASCOMYCOTINA (noun)
Meaning:
A large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes; sac fungi; in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Ascomycota; Ascomycotina; subdivision Ascomycota; subdivision Ascomycotina
Hypernyms ("Ascomycotina" is a kind of...):
division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)
Meronyms (members of "Ascomycotina"):
Helotiales; order Helotiales (order of fungi having asci in a disk-shaped to goblet-shaped apothecium)
order Tuberales; Tuberales (small order of fungi belonging to the subdivision Ascomycota having closed underground ascocarps)
sac fungus (any of various ascomycetous fungi in which the spores are formed in a sac or ascus)
Ascomycetes; class Ascomycetes (large class of higher fungi coextensive with division Ascomycota: sac fungi)
ascomycete; ascomycetous fungus (any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus)
class Hemiascomycetes; Hemiascomycetes (class of fungi in which no ascocarps are formed: yeasts and some plant parasites)
class Plectomycetes; Plectomycetes (class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a cleistothecium (it releases spores only on decay or disintegration))
class Pyrenomycetes; Pyrenomycetes (class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium; includes powdery mildews and ergot and Neurospora)
Holonyms ("Ascomycotina" is a member of...):
division Eumycota; Eumycota (true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi))
