noun
fungi varying from gelatinous to waxy or even horny in texture; most are saprophytic
• Syn: ↑order Tremellales
• Hypernyms: ↑fungus order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Basidiomycetes, ↑class Basidiomycetes
• Member Meronyms: ↑Tremellaceae, ↑family Tremellaceae, ↑Auriculariaceae, ↑family Auriculariaceae, ↑Dacrymycetaceae, ↑family Dacrymycetaceae
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: an order of basidiomycetous fungi (subclass Heterobasidiomycetes) having the basidiocarp well developed and varying from gelatinous to waxy or even horny in texture especially when dry and being mostly saprophytes but including some parasites of mosses, other fungi, insects, or vascular plants — see auriculariaceae, tremellaceae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.