class oomycetes

1. Nonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores;
   Sometimes classified as protoctists (synset 112998056)
   is a type of: class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
   member holonym:

   • order saprolegniales, saprolegniales - order of chiefly aquatic fungi
   • order peronosporales, peronosporales - order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi: Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae
   • family plasmodiophoraceae, plasmodiophoraceae - family of fungi often causing hypertrophy in seed plants
   belongs to: mastigomycota, mastigomycotina, subdivision mastigomycota, subdivision mastigomycotina - fungi in which the spores and gametes are motile; in some systems placed in the Phycomycetes group with the Zygomycota
   same as: oomycetes

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