GENUS CRONARTIUM
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cronartium mean?
• GENUS CRONARTIUM (noun)
The noun GENUS CRONARTIUM has 1 sense:
1. rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns
Familiarity information: GENUS CRONARTIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS CRONARTIUM (noun)
Meaning:
Rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cronartium; genus Cronartium
Hypernyms ("genus Cronartium" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Meronyms (members of "genus Cronartium"):
blister rust; Cronartium ribicola (fungus causing white pine blister rust and having a complex life cycle requiring a plant of genus Ribes as alternate host)
Holonyms ("genus Cronartium" is a member of...):
family Melampsoraceae; Melampsoraceae (rust fungi)