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POTATO FUNGUS

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• POTATO FUNGUS (noun)
The noun POTATO FUNGUS has 1 sense:

1. fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers

Familiarity information: POTATO FUNGUS used as a noun is very rare.

• POTATO FUNGUS (noun)

Sense 1

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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 ("potato fungus" is a kind of...):

fungus (a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores)

Holonyms ("potato fungus" 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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