noun
parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes
• Syn: ↑order Ustilaginales
• Hypernyms: ↑fungus order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Basidiomycota, ↑subdivision Basidiomycota, ↑Basidiomycotina, ↑subdivision Basidiomycotina
• Member Meronyms: ↑smut, ↑smut fungus, ↑Ustilaginaceae, ↑family Ustilaginaceae, ↑Tilletiaceae, ↑family Tilletiaceae
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\\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈnā(ˌ)lēz\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: an order of parasitic basidiomycetous fungi that cause smuts of various plants and especially of cereal grasses and have a complex life cycle which may include conidia production and in which sessile haploid basidiospores ultimately yield thick-walled dark-colored chlamydospores which typically replace the ovaries of an infected plant in a smutty mass and germinate with a meiosis to form a promycelium and begin a new basidial generation — compare uredinales, ustilago; see tilletiaceae
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