noun
comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi
• Hypernyms: ↑division
• Member Holonyms: ↑Eumycota, ↑division Eumycota
• Member Meronyms:
↑Basidiomycetes, ↑class Basidiomycetes, ↑Hymenomycetes, ↑class Hymenomycetes, ↑Agaricales, ↑order Agaricales, ↑Gasteromycetes, ↑class Gasteromycetes, ↑Gastromycetes, ↑class Gastromycetes, ↑Aphyllophorales, ↑order Aphyllophorales, ↑Tiliomycetes, ↑class Tiliomycetes, ↑Ustilaginales, ↑order Ustilaginales, ↑Septobasidiaceae, ↑family Septobasidiaceae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.