PELLICULARIA FILAMENTOSA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Pellicularia filamentosa mean? • PELLICULARIA FILAMENTOSA (noun)
The noun PELLICULARIA FILAMENTOSA has 1 sense:
1. fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers
Familiarity information: PELLICULARIA FILAMENTOSA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PELLICULARIA FILAMENTOSA (noun)
Meaning:
Fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Pellicularia filamentosa; potato fungus; Rhizoctinia solani
Hypernyms ("Pellicularia filamentosa" is a kind of...):
fungus (a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores)
Holonyms ("Pellicularia filamentosa" is a member of...):
genus Pellicularia; Pellicularia (genus of fungi having the hymenium in the form of a crust; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia)
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