any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.Claviceps purpurea
a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
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any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.a mold causing aspergillosis in birds and man
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.fungus causing black root rot in apples
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.fungus causing brown root rot in plants of the pea and potato and cucumber families
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales; "the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry th…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.fungus causing Dutch elm disease
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.a fungus resembling slime mold that causes swellings or distortions of the roots of cabbages and related plants
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.fungus causing a disease in coffee and some other tropical plants
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral
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seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, infects, various, cereal, plants.The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, infects, various, cereal, plants.A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, infects, various, cereal, plants.fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, infects, various, cereal, plants.Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; als…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, infects, various, cereal, plants.A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, lik…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, infects, various, cereal, plants.any of various algae of the genus Tribonema; algae with branching filaments that form scum in still or stagnant fresh water
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, infects, various, cereal, plants.tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, infects, various, cereal, plants.Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); gr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, infects, various, cereal, plants.a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, infects, various, cereal, plants.fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, infects, various, cereal, plants.coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, infects, various, cereal, plants.Explore Academic Dictionary
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