RUST FUNGUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rust fungus mean? 

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

1. any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUST FUNGUS (noun)

Meaning:

Any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

rust fungus; rust

Hypernyms ("rust fungus" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "rust fungus"):

aecium (fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores)

aeciospore (spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rust fungus"):

flax rust; flax rust fungus; Melampsora lini (fungus causing flax rust)

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)

Puccinia graminis; wheat rust (rust fungus that attacks wheat)

apple rust; cedar-apple rust; Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae (rust fungus causing rust spots on apples and pears etc)

Holonyms ("rust fungus" is a member of...):

order Uredinales; Uredinales (rust fungi: parasitic fungi causing rust in plants; sometimes placed in)