noun
division of fungi having sexually produced zygospores
• Hypernyms: ↑division
• Member Holonyms: ↑Eumycota, ↑division Eumycota
• Member Meronyms: ↑Zygomycetes, ↑class Zygomycetes
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/zuy'geuh muy koh"teuh/, n. Mycol.
the zygomycetes considered as belonging to the phylum Zygomycota of the kingdom Fungi.
[ NL; see ZYGOMYCETE, -OTA]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.