PERONOSPORALES
Dictionary entry overview: What does Peronosporales mean?
• PERONOSPORALES (noun)
The noun PERONOSPORALES has 1 sense:
1. order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi: Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae
Familiarity information: PERONOSPORALES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PERONOSPORALES (noun)
Meaning:
Order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi: Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
order Peronosporales; Peronosporales
Hypernyms ("Peronosporales" is a kind of...):
fungus order (the order of fungi)
Meronyms (members of "Peronosporales"):
family Peronosporaceae; Peronosporaceae (parasitic fungi: downy mildews)
Albuginaceae; family Albuginaceae (fungi that produce white sori resembling blisters on certain flowering plants)
family Pythiaceae; Pythiaceae (fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores)
Holonyms ("Peronosporales" is a member of...):
class Oomycetes; Oomycetes (nonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores; sometimes classified as protoctists)
